AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL BY ARIN VALEFOR THE ENDLESSLY CURIOUS

SPECULATIVE FICTION, ESSAYS & POSSIBLE WORLDS

There is more
to imagine.

Stories and ideas about what happens to people when the rules around them change.

A different question. A wider world.

Conceptual double exposure of a human profile fading into sea mist, evoking a familiar voice changing with age
NEW FICTION

Two Notes Lower

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Start with a story, a question, or a guided path through the journal.Find your way in

TWO GOOD PLACES TO BEGIN

Start with a story.
Stay for a question.

LATEST FROM THE JOURNAL

One Choice Is a Poor Biography

A single moment can tell us something true about a person. How much of their life are we entitled to build around it?

Essay · 6 min read
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CHOOSE A DOOR

Read by
format.

01

Stories

Standalone speculative fiction built around one human choice.

02

Beyond the Question

Longer investigations that cross disciplines without pretending certainty.

03

Articles

Essays, explainers, discussions, and smaller ideas worth lingering with.

Imagined distant world under a crescent planetA WORLD IN THE MAKING

FROM THE WRITING DESK

What if forever
were a choice?

A forthcoming speculative novel explores a world where biological immortality is possible—and choosing it is anything but simple.

In development · Title and release date to be announced

Step inside the upcoming novel

THE PERSON BEHIND THE PAGES

Hello. I’m Arin.

I write speculative fiction and explore the questions that give it life. This is where those stories and ideas meet.

A little more about me