Tim Carmichael
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Tim is an Appalachian poet and cookbook author. He writes about rural life, family, and the places he grew up around. His poetry and essays have appeared in Beautiful and Brutal Things, his latest book.
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The Map of the Holler
Some maps are drawn on paper and some are drawn in memory. The first kind shows you how to get from one place to another. The second shows you who you are and where you come from. The holler where I grew up never appeared in an atlas, though it shaped every turn of my life.
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Humans
The Unnumbered Door
When I first walked into the Harrington Apartments, my shoes stuck a little to the hallway floor. The carpet changed color halfway down, as if someone ran out of one kind and just kept going with another. The brass banister was loose in its brackets, wobbling a little when I brushed past. Everything looked clean, but not cared for, like someone kept wiping the same layer of age instead of removing it.
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Fiction
The Mirror Equation
Dr. Artie Thomas believed truth could be measured if only one built the right instrument. For twelve years, he chased a theorem that shimmered like a mirage at the edge of physics: parallel decoherence windows, where quantum probabilities formed thin, temporary bridges between near-identical realities. He called his invention the Aperture Array. His colleagues called it impossible.
By Tim Carmichael4 months ago in Fiction
