Folio Entries - josephbrindley.com/folio
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What if there were two of you?
Date: 2026-06-07
Categories: Fiction
Excerpt: What if there were two of you? What if there were two of you, separated by stars and circumstance. The first "you" - the original - is taking the slow path on Earth. But the second "you" is a scan of your entire self - a map of your brain, memories, choices, and traumas. The second "you" ...
Tags: Project Zero, Science Fiction
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202606071858-what-if-there-were-two-of-you
Transmission Signal: Re-established. Transmitting.
Date: 2026-05-22
Categories: Writing Life
Excerpt: It's always hard to start something isn't it? Almost as hard as it is to stop. Life has a funny way of starting over and over again like a butterfly eating itself. Sometimes it is a comfort to know we are such an infinitesimally small piece of this incredibly stupid universe we are stuck in. Part of
Tags: Announcements
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202605220155-transmission-signal-re-established-transmitting
Twenty-Six to Go...!
Date: 2025-08-14
Categories: Writing Life
Excerpt: Working on polishing and finishing up the last few sections of Black Butterflies for its release at the end of the month!
Tags: Black Butterflies, Announcements
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508140000-twenty-six-to-go
Neon Stream - Half Dot Dash Poetry Form Sample
Date: 2025-08-13
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: Rain on the glass gray, lights in a row day, steam from the pan spray.
Tags: Poetry Forms, Half Dot Dash
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508130000-neon-stream-half-dot-dash-poetry-form-sample
Poetry Form - The Half Dot Dash Couplet
Date: 2025-08-12
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: The Dot Dash Couplet is a two-line rhyming form built on a fixed syllable pattern of alternating short and long beats.
Tags: Poetry Forms, Half Dot Dash
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508120000-poetry-form-the-half-dot-dash-couplet
Software and Secrets
Date: 2025-08-11
Categories: Writing Life
Excerpt: I've been going through my writing process of late, and trying to streamline, improve, upgrade, or downgrade, as the case may be.
Tags: Writing Tools
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508110000-software-and-secrets
Wednesday Was a Very Bad Day
Date: 2025-08-10
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: I scroll through the shadows, your name in the glow, hunting for daggers I'm sure you will throw.
Tags: Black Butterflies, Trauma
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508100000-wednesday-was-a-very-bad-day
Title Unlocked
Date: 2025-08-09
Categories: Fiction
Excerpt: Today I selected the title for the upcoming work of mine that I am working through in my bachelor's studies.
Tags: Signum, Science Fiction, Announcements
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508090000-title-unlocked
Black Eye Wale
Date: 2025-08-08
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: The phone would ring at half-past two, your voice all slur and cigarette rain.
Tags: Black Butterflies, Poetry Forms, Trauma
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508080000-black-eye-wale
The Undone Dead
Date: 2025-08-07
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: he was not a monster / not at first. / at first, / he said i was beautiful / in ways i had never been called anything before.
Tags: Black Butterflies, Free Verse, Trauma
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508070000-the-undone-dead
World Wide Weird
Date: 2025-08-06
Categories: Writing Life
Excerpt: Worked on the website some here and there, and I think I have it as good as it's going to get for the near future.
Tags: Website
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508060000-world-wide-weird
My Body
Date: 2025-08-05
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: Each step creaks louder, shifts more beneath me. The banister sighs under the weight of all I haven't said.
Tags: Free Verse, Trauma
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508050000-my-body
Morning
Date: 2025-08-04
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: static compartmentalized, hollow face / remembering the past through rain
Tags: The Retraux, Trauma
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508040000-morning
Poetry Form - The Retraux
Date: 2025-08-03
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: Poetry comes in all forms, from sonnets to free form, and something I've wanted to do to better express myself is create some new forms of poetry for others to use.
Tags: Poetry Forms, The Retraux, Trauma
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508030000-poetry-form-the-retraux
The Alchemy of Sunflowers
Date: 2025-08-02
Categories: Poetry
Excerpt: they called him broken - as if a fractured mind couldn't still conjure sky.
Tags: Free Verse
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202508020000-the-alchemy-of-sunflowers
31 Days Away
Date: 2025-07-31
Categories: Writing Life
Excerpt: My newest project is set to release thirty-one (31) days from now, and every day leading up to the release, a small sneak peek!
Tags: Black Butterflies, Announcements
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202507310000-31-days-away
It's Alive. Still.
Date: 2025-07-30
Categories: Writing Life
Excerpt: Well, today's launch day didn't go precisely as planned. But at least the website facelift is complete - for now, minus some minor changes. Working on three d...
Tags: Announcements, Signum
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202507300000-its-alive-still
On Poetry
Date: 2025-07-30
Categories: Essays
Excerpt: There is a haunting dissonance you feel when writing about your personal trauma through the spyglass of a poem. Nothing is as real as it should be. Nothing is...
Tags: Trauma, Writing Process
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202507300001-on-poetry
Oops, I Blogged Myself.
Date: 2025-07-28
Categories: Writing Life
Excerpt: I said years ago I would never write another public blog. Well, oops. Talked myself out of this about six times already today, but it's time. Not time for th...
Tags: Announcements
URL: https://josephbrindley.com/folio/202507280000-oops-i-blogged-myself