Welcome to The Third Rail

Welcome to The Third Rail Reader — a home for sharp edges, untouchable questions, and things too honest for polite company.

This site exists because our institutions are breaking down faster than we can fix them—and someone has to say what others won’t.

I write from the place where circuitry meets soul, where systems collapse and stories try to make sense of the smoke. You’ll find essays, manifestos, short plays, speculative dispatches, and notes from the edge of the Anthropocene. Some funny. Some furious. All electric.

This project isn’t here to go viral. It’s here to be real.

If you’ve ever felt alone in your thinking, you’re not.

If you’ve ever needed to read something that didn’t insult your intelligence, this is for you.

I’ll be posting once a week, give or take. No promises except one: I won’t pretend this isn’t complicated.

Thanks for walking the third rail with me. Let’s see where it sparks.