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Chasing Syntropy

An absurdist southern gothic tale stretching across four generations into a future of hurricanes, cyber-warfare, rogue AI, and nuclear holocaust. But really it’s about ecology, fatherhood, disability, and loss.

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Also: Ungoverned Spaces, a memoir co-written with Ben Drinen.


Stories

Hitchhiking, a night on patrol, Sunday cockfights in Tumbes. Short fiction in Narrative, Witness, and The Massachusetts Review.

Haiku

Published in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and The Heron’s Nest.

Music

Bub has recorded three albums: Apocalyptic Bub, Bub Among the Anglicans, and Bub Around the World.

The Tutahaco, a white World War II–era Navy tugboat, tied up at a dock
The Tutahaco, a World War II–era Navy tug. St. Thomas to Fort Lauderdale, through a storm.

Nate Haken was born in Nigeria and raised in Switzerland, Mexico, and Cameroon. He has been a newspaper reporter in Illinois, a television producer in Washington, and a cook in the Caribbean. More →