John Jay Stancliff 

Why I'm Writing a Massive Tome

My Annual Top 10 Favorite Books I Read This Year. This is my 3rd year doing this and I’m bringing it from Instagram to here. All of these books are hood classics total bangers.

Wrong — see the 21st century Godfather of the form, Karl Ove Knausgaard. His is, at face value, a most boring life. A moderately famous, middle class author. But he writes with life-or-death urgency, and is able to pace and digress in a way which makes his life, somehow, entertaining. If you want to write good autofiction, don’t become interesting. Get gud.

The reason a lot of contemporary autofiction doesn’t work is because most of these writers are boring people.

Yes - they’re usually fucked up, terminally online degenerates, but that’s not the same thing as being interesting as characters.

Autofiction about boring people is still boring.

Tales of The Unreal 4 — Coming This Christmas Eve

Since the year is fast winding down and I have no more side projects planned, this is the best thing I posted to unterstack in 2024. I won’t be doing some year in review BS. The novella this short will eventually tie into is on indefinite hold, but I think it stands alright on its own. Thanks to anyone who read my work in 2024. I have no…

The Annotations of A. M. Stone

Posted this one a couple years ago; one of those stories which never quite connected with others, but which I dearly love. One of my best

Razor Tin

YOU PEOPLE ARE ANTS!!! WORMS!!! I HATE THIS PLACE!!!! YOU NEITHER WRITE NOR READ!!! LET ME OUT!!!

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Thanksgiving During a Revolution

I’m seeing substack posts about the struggle of being a national socialist iFunny mod. I’m seeing posts about unrealistic beauty standards on Manhattan instagram. I’m seeing posts about how Cormac McCarthy makes millennial males uncomfortable with their maleness. What am I supposed to do with this? Why have I seen it? Why is this website so shit now?