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Studio Log · December 2025

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Kirenya is a creative studio weaving fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid works that move between dream, structure, and signal. Through multiple pen names…

Dec 2 •

The Library of Almost

Stomari | Process & Drafts – version 3 - A figure walks a silent corridor where pages float in the air and change whenever they’re seen. The hall…

Nov 30 •

Stomari | Dream Journal – yyyy/mm/dd - A figure walks a silent corridor where pages float in the air and change whenever they’re seen. The hall unfolds…

Nov 30 •

To Those Who Arrived Early

A small thank you to everyone who has stepped into this space in its early days, both those who chose to subscribe and those who chose to follow the…

Nov 28 •

Guest Window — Invitation & Process

Kirenya Studio - A clear guide to how Guest Window works and how to participate in this curated Studio feature.

Nov 28 •

They Kept Quiet While the Others Talked

Makari | Temporal Scores — Practice in Motion — A second pass through the same score: a longer third person sentence, three variations, and three lines…

Nov 24 •

The Flattery of Misunderstanding

Stomari | The Notebooks: Process and Drafts — A story about voices, labels, and the quiet beauty of being misread — We were trying to figure out how to…

Nov 23 •

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The Library of Almost

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Don't Box Me In - Trailer

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On the Questions Beneath Questions

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When the Pages Start Watching You Back

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The Library of Almost - Trailer

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Stomari

The Library of Almost

Stomari | Process & Drafts – version 3 - A figure walks a silent corridor where pages float in the air and change whenever they’re seen. The hall…

Nov 30 •

Stomari | Dream Journal – yyyy/mm/dd - A figure walks a silent corridor where pages float in the air and change whenever they’re seen. The hall unfolds…

Nov 30 •

The Flattery of Misunderstanding

Stomari | The Notebooks: Process and Drafts — A story about voices, labels, and the quiet beauty of being misread — We were trying to figure out how to…

Nov 23 •

🌿The City’s Sweepers - Author’s Note

Stomari — A quiet meditation on the city’s invisible caretakers — and the dreamlike moment that led to the writing of The City’s Sweepers. This…

Nov 21 •

About the Pen Names

Explore the distinct pen names that shape Kirenya Studio — five modes of thinking, one creative architecture.

Nov 19 •

Makari

They Kept Quiet While the Others Talked

Makari | Temporal Scores — Practice in Motion — A second pass through the same score: a longer third person sentence, three variations, and three lines…

Nov 24 •

Threshold Practices for the Creative Self

Makari | The Notebooks: Process and Drafts — A conversation about the moments that ask for patience — A reflective meditation on the quiet crossings…

Nov 23 •

Navigation Guide | Cleave

Makari | A three-part meditation on cleave — the word that means to split and to cling. Follow its unfolding through poem, reflection, and story.

Nov 22 •

The Thought That Returns

Makari | Temporal Scores — Practice in Motion — A first pass through this month’s score: a small instruction, two attempts, and the lines that moved…

Nov 21 •

🌿How "Cleave" Unfolded

Makari | Author’s Note — A story about how a grammar term became a poem — and how resistance can open into revelation.

Nov 21 •

Mabstama

About the Pen Names

Explore the distinct pen names that shape Kirenya Studio — five modes of thinking, one creative architecture.

Nov 19 •

The Bram Archive – Dispatch No. 17 (Text Only)

Makari | The Notebooks: Process and Drafts — Engagement Invitation — A bureaucratic artifact examining artificial expression thresholds, archived…

Nov 18 •

The Bram Archive – Dispatch No. 17

Mabst | The Notebooks: Process and Drafts

Nov 18 •

Welcome to the Reader Guide & Orientation

A gentle orientation for readers: how to move through the Kirenya Studio, explore the work, and understand how the space comes together.

Nov 18 •

Main Street: The Crossing

Mabstama — Main Street looks safe—until you step off the curb. A neutral observer starts seeing the pattern: every “hit” lands under the same drivers…

Aug 16 •

Panoma

About the Pen Names

Explore the distinct pen names that shape Kirenya Studio — five modes of thinking, one creative architecture.

Nov 19 •

The Architecture of This Space

Strategic and operational insight grounded in engineered clarity and real-world systems.

Nov 19 •

Welcome to the Reader Guide & Orientation

A gentle orientation for readers: how to move through the Kirenya Studio, explore the work, and understand how the space comes together.

Nov 18 •

Copyright & Other Notices

Notes on usage, classification, and creative intent.

Jul 15 •

Syntax of the Self

Navigation Guide | Syntax of the Self

Makari | A Reflection on Language and Connection — A quiet exploration of how the structures of grammar mirror the structures of mind and relationship…

Nov 17 •

The Sentence That Lets Us Belong

Makari | Syntax of the Self — A Meditation on Connection and Coherence — how language, when used with care, holds us together in an age of…

Nov 12 •

🌿How "Syntax of the Self" Unfolded

Makari | A brief reflection on the origins of Syntax of the Self—how a study of conjunctions opened into an inquiry on connection, coherence, and care…

Nov 11 •

On the Uses of Punctuation in a Fractured Age

Makari | Syntax of the Self – Part 3 — An essay-poem on the social ethics of syntax. Makari reimagines punctuation as a structure of belonging—one that…

Nov 10 •

The Grammar of Connection

Makari | Syntax of the Self – Part 2 — Every relationship invents its own syntax. This piece explores how love, conversation, and silence coauthor…

Nov 10 •

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