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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Stories

    No Rides Left in Kolkata a Trip Through Chaos, Chai, and Sound

    July 4, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    In 2016 I roamed the streets of Kolkata with a camera and a beat. No plan, just people, noise, and a track by Horrorshow that made it all feel cinematic.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Poetry

    Good Things Happen When You Smile, or When You’re Naked (The Gods Are Still High)

    July 4, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A goddess once worshiped for wisdom shows up barefoot, high, and half-naked, here to remind you truth isn’t polite, it’s primal.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Technology

    Why Your Substack Posts Aren’t Showing Up in Google (and How to Fix It)

    July 2, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    You’re writing great stuff on Substack, so where are the search results? Here’s how we solved the indexing problem, step-by-step.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Stories

    Naked, Tripping, and Hunting Stars in the Oregon Woods

    July 2, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A surreal descent into primal madness, brotherhood, psychedelics, and the holy absurdity of freedom.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Stories

    Trestles and Ghosts

    June 29, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A lyrical ride through Southern California’s iconic break, where memory, solitude, and the sea crash together.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Poetry

    Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God of L’s and Broken Beats

    June 29, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    He’s not saving souls, just lighting blunts and keeping the rhythm alive in a godless world.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Poetry

    Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Loved Too Loud

    June 29, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    He was the patron saint of broken hearts and bong rips, showing up stoned with a lighter, a limp prayer, and nothing left to lose.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Poetry

    Mirrors and Rituals

    June 29, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A raw, defiant, dread. Stubborn pride collide.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Politics

    Pardons, Payoffs, and MAGA Betrayal

    June 27, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A hard look at the GOP’s love affair with corruption, Trump’s selective pardons, and how the base gets left in the dirt.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Stories

    Midnight Thoughts from the Cancer Research Center

    June 27, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    One man’s heartbreak over what America has become, and the grifter who broke it.

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