The Spiffy Awards
A Dialogue in Several Acts of Deteriorating Cultural Standards
Open case →Evidence Room · File 000
Dispatches from Peter Mangiaracina on writing, books, language, culture, politics, artificial intelligence, and whatever else has left fingerprints at the scene.
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Statement for the record
RabidFiles is where the orderly author website stops and the evidence begins. No posting schedule. No lifestyle brand. Just notes, arguments, obsessions, conversations, and the occasional item seized for further examination.
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The first genuine exhibit is now in the cabinet. More files will replace the remaining samples as the archive arrives.
A Dialogue in Several Acts of Deteriorating Cultural Standards
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Notes from the room where characters change their stories, motives go missing, and the outline demands a lawyer.
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An evidence-led examination of public language, private panic, and the stories a culture tells under oath.
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Two thinkers, one undergraduate argument, and the cold case that still turns up in the writer’s notebooks.
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Primary suspect
Writer of psychological mystery thrillers, dark short fiction, and the material collected here. For the books, stories, biography, and official record, visit the author site.
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