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Zlatko Enev – Writer, Essayist, and Creator of Firecurl
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Not all
that kills me
makes me
weaker

Essays

December 12, 2025

The Dangerous Ethics of Victimhood

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In recent years I have found myself increasingly confronted with an old yet stubbornly persistent way of thinking: the assumption that the oppressed are, by definition, right, and the powerful, by definition, guilty. One of my more recent exchanges on the Net brought this into…

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Confessions

June 06, 2025

An Emigrant’s Story

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Hello friends, I’m starting something here that feels a bit questionable – but then again, why not? During the night I was haunted by a flurry of vague dreams where old and new memories blurred together. So by morning, the only clear thing was that I wanted to write – and not…

Short Stories

June 11, 2025

Stuck in the Moment

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“No,” said the Girl, and there was a familiar note in her voice. Painfully familiar. “No parking!” “Keep off the grass!” “Occupied!” “Oh, come on,” thought the Boy – who by now wasn’t really a boy anymore, but a short-cropped, greying little man. “It was ‘no’ the other day, too,…

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M. K. posted a comment in The Yellow Eyes of Horror
What bothers me here is how everything feels ...
Georgi P. posted a comment in The Man Who Defied the Maelstrom
I’m not convinced. The text is intelligent, y...
@latent_vector posted a comment in The Man Who Defied the Maelstrom
What strikes me most is not the defiance, but...
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What makes this essay striking is not its sub...
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Books

June 01, 2025

Firecurl in the Ghost Desert

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Beyond the ruined Park lies the Desert of Ghosts — a wasteland where the sun burns the ground white and the nights chill the bones.