THE CHAIR STAYED YOU ARE STILL HERE IT'S ALWAYS TODAY NOW SERVING: 847 THE ROOM SURVIVED. I DID TOO THE CHAIR STAYED YOU ARE STILL HERE IT'S ALWAYS TODAY NOW SERVING: 847 THE ROOM SURVIVED. I DID TOO
Essays by Buse · mirrored from Medium Vol. I — July 2026
"Essays on rooms, clocks, and the people who leave them" — updated when something needs holding still
Cover — "Seven Small Joys," drawn entirely in CSS The essays live on Medium; every card below opens one
Section A · LettersThe Window Archive · p. 2

A Letter From the Writer

This is not a magazine, exactly. It is a front door. Everything behind it lives on Medium — essays about fathers and kitchens, clocks stuck at six, waiting rooms where hope takes a number, and the good people who keep a room intact while someone in it is being hurt. Every card below is a window; click one and it opens.

An archive is just a house where nothing has to be thrown away — only moved to another room.

I write to hold things still. Pressed flat and named, the water gets a little lighter to stand in. Some of these essays are maps, some are inventories, one is a bureaucratic complaint filed against a ghost. They are collected here in one place so the rooms can talk to each other.

New essays appear as they are published. The chair stays.

From Berlin,BUSE
In Brief · Four lines from the essaysp. 3

“You don’t notice the tide going out. You notice the shore is dry.”

“We loved each other. But we weren’t speaking the same time.”

“Once you’ve seen the stars through glass, a ceiling is just a lid.”

“I didn’t get the approval. But I got my Tuesday back.”

Section B · EssaysThe Window Archive · p. 4
Latest · Family & Inheritance

Midnight Milk and My Father

On inherited silences, the humiliation of hubris, and the ugly math of crying more than them.

5 min read1 July 2026

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Family & Inheritance

Mapping the Canals of Atlantis

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The Window Archive

Clock Stuck at Six

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Rooms & Society

Hatred in the Décor

Counter Arts — Learning about American racism 5,000 miles away.

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Self-Forensics

You’ll Know Them Immediately

Readers Club — Even a thousand years can’t teach you how to be a stranger.

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Self-Forensics

Maybe Is a Waiting Room

Readers Club — Where hope takes a number and nothing ever calls it.

5 min read24 January 2026