Steven R. Kraaijeveld

PhD, MA, MSc. Philosophy, psychology, and literature. Love cats. Instagram Substack Goodreads

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a semblance of order

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My short story "The Future of Grief" is out now in Maudlin House. It's a cautionary tale about using technology to cope with grief.

"And if the memories that they had sculpted while breathing in this life together should gradually fade away, become transmuted into new memories forged through a projector, should anyone mourn that loss?"

Read the entire story here: https://maudlinhouse.net/the-future-of-grief/

The Future of Grief

She was ripped from the world in a single night. One miscalculation caused the vehicle to swerve wildly through the rain-drenched darkness.

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"If you want to earn the gratitude of your own age you must keep in step with it. But if you do that you will produce nothing great. If you have something great in view you must address yourself to posterity: only then, to be sure, you will probably remain unknown to your contemporaries; you will be like a man compelled to spend his life on a desert island and there toiling to erect a memorial so that future seafarers shall know he once existed."

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reading in the train

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A Vindication of Dostoevsky's Gambler Wife

Being the partner of a famous writer—of any person who enters the annals of history—means that public interest in you as an individual will

Here's a new Substack piece that I wrote on Andrew D. Kaufman's story of Dostoevsky's second wife, Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevskaya (née Snitkina).

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my Capote collection is taking shape ✨

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finally reading IJ

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currently reading

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"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

—Saint Teresa

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currently reading Colette

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currently reading