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Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The first chapter of NO-WIN is now live. A comic-institutional family chronicle set inside a 1970s emergency department, where optimism, bureaucracy, and reality begin a long argument. New chapters every Sunday.

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In Which I Present Myself to the Emergency Department

Chapter 1

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Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

If you’ve ever worked in a hospital, you’ve probably met someone who was indispensable right up until the moment they weren’t. NO-WIN is a novel about usefulness, exhaustion, bureaucracy, and the people who somehow keep showing up anyway. Introduction and chapter guide 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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An Introduction to NO-WIN

How to read the serialized novel about hospitals, bureaucracy, family, competence, and the strange ways people survive one another.

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Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“Somewhere beneath all the bureaucracy and fluorescent despair and administrative appetite there still remained the faint embarrassing possibility that human beings might survive one another after all.” NO-WIN begins June 7.

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An Introduction to NO-WIN

How to read the serialized novel about hospitals, bureaucracy, family, competence, and the strange ways people survive one another.

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Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

NO-WIN is a novel set in the hospitals, highways, small towns, and lakeshores of Michigan during the 1970s. It’s also about a family trip to Michilimackinac that involves rain, mechanical uncertainty, financial anxiety, and several moments of genuine happiness. Link in comments

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Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I’ve started serializing NO-WIN—a novel about emergency departments, institutional absurdity, family life, usefulness, exhaustion, and the strange forms of humanity that survive beneath administrative systems. New chapters every Sunday at 7pm, starting June 7.

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An Introduction to NO-WIN

How to read the serialized novel about hospitals, bureaucracy, family, competence, and the strange ways people survive one another.

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brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A man hands me a stamped paper confirming I’m a piece of shit. I sign a denial. We both feel better about the system.

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Employee Completely Denies Being a Piece of Shit

Fiction: by Aaron Boot

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brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

“The son has awakened from a dream; his father goes into his room to comfort him. There was a man with a camera, the son says. It is still very early, his father tells him. Go back to sleep. He looked like you, the son says. No, the son says; he didn’t look like you, but I knew he was you. “

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A Movie

Fiction: by James Tadd Adcox

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brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

“If someone is given a good beating, he becomes modest and doesn’t boast about himself.” —Daniil Kharms

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Writing Toward the Wrong Feeling

Influences: On Daniil Kharms, recognition, and the reader who stays

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brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Watching a film that turns out to be your own life: gesture by gesture, room by room. Quiet, uncanny, and deeply unsettling. A piece by James Tadd Adcox.

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A Movie

Fiction: by James Tadd Adcox

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brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This piece looks at how quickly a person can be reinterpreted inside a system built on control and how those shifts don’t easily reverse. Open for submissions. I’m interested in short, controlled but unstable work. In the meantime, I’ve been posting my own material as things get off the ground.

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It Should Have Been There

Nonfiction: by Aaron Boot

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Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hope this is the first of many, but Maudlin got there before anyone. “Employee Completely Denies Being a Piece of Shit” is live. Grateful to start here.

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Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"The man looked up at you and smiled. You look down at your piss stream. Suddenly, Nerves by Silkworm starts to play."

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You Asked for This

And it was given precisely

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Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I had my first rejection for my CNF, "I Did Not Quit Freely." Here's the first sentence: “The judge’s voice arrives as static, the sound of a person attempting to become official.” I look forward to hearing many more.

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