We are born with the archive already open. “Unpacking generational baselines and historical data loops in my nonfiction piece "Inherited Voices," live on page 26 of the little things lit mag. Read Issue 3 here: thelittlethingslit.wixsite.com/the-little-t... 📋

Subtraction is to minus as minus is to takeaway. Subtraction is theory; minus is the operation; takeaway is the raw theft. Unpacking the cognitive math of creative removal in today’s Substack letter. Also tracking part 1 of my feature with @thelittlethingslitmag live today!) 🌿📋

The clay failed without warning. Not dramatic—internal, quiet, absolute. Structure withdrawing its agreement." An excerpt from "Arcs in Motion" in Assignment Literary Magazine. Gravity does not negotiate; it only redistributes force. Read it here: assignmentmag.com

I love investigating the physical residues of memory through clinical, forensic, and scientific lenses. When strict measurement fails, fiction steps in. 🌌"Arcs in Motion" is out this week in Assignment Literary Magazine. Check out the new issue to read the full piece.

"At 10:07 a.m., the rainbow arrived with a clipboard and elbows..." 🌈 📊 My piece "Audit" is officially live on Rat Bag Lit. It’s a surreal, clinical look at tracking, metrics, and the limits of measurement. Read it here: @ratbaglit.bsky.social

Today's story is "Audit" by Tamara-Lee Brereton-Karabetsos. @tamaraleewrites.bsky.social #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #drabble #drabbles #Rainbows

Just live on Rat Bag Lit: "Audit" 📋 “Red yelled at forks; blue denied chairs; yellow laughed until the ceiling burped sequins..." An exploration of color, cognitive census-taking, and what happens when we stop adding noise and count the fragments. open.substack.com/pub/ratbagli...

It’s 5:00 PM here in Athens. Before you close your laptop or finish your day, resist the urge to add tomorrow’s checklist to an already crowded plate. Addition isn’t about adding. It’s about counting. Today’s essay on cognitive math and creative structure is officially live in your inbox.

Human cognition is hardwired for pattern detection. The brain hates uncertainty so much it will invent correlations in pure noise just to feel safe.As writers, our job isn't to fix the chaos—it's to notice the real patterns vs. the comfortable illusions. What patterns are you tracking today? 📊

Systems don’t fail, they break. If you force an indoor, winter work ethic onto a human engine under a June sun, the machinery fractures. True alignment means adjusting the framework to fit the actual physics of the season. Writing from the beach today.

In the world of systems, isolation is a scientific myth. You cannot treat a single variable without altering the entire sample. More on the physics of human connection in today's essay.

Biology becomes ecology. We are not closed biological equations; we are open ecosystems. True science literacy means recognizing that our internal systems are constantly being rewritten by our external environments.

The clinical file says "No Further Action Required." The human reality is waking up at 3 AM trying to navigate the quiet after a crisis ends. My Friday essay maps out Lab Facts vs. Human Facts—and how the layout of Athens mirrors our internal trauma tracks. 🧠🏛️

Editing a long-form essay for tomorrow morning. It is always a strange feeling to look back at past panic and treat it like an anatomical case study. Distance gives you clarity, but the page demands you feel it all over again. The new master piece drops tomorrow morning. ⏳✍️

Adrabble is exactly 100 words—like packing a room into a matchbox. My micro-piece is live in the Lucky Penny Day anthology. 🪙 ✍️Writers: Do constraints liberate or suffocate your prose? Read "Hold Me to Time" live here: tapintopoetry.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/t...

My new poem "Hold Me to Time" dropped this morning in Edition 26 of Tap into Poetry (@tapintopoetry.bsky.social). It is a short, raw look at how often we choose escape and call it an ending, simply to avoid the messy middle of healing. ⏳

Time is a strange thing when you’re healing. Some days feel like an eternity; others slip away. Thrilled to share that my poem "Hold Me to Time" drops tomorrow in Edition 26 of Tap into Poetry (@tapintopoetry.bsky.social). ⏳

For Mental Health Month, sharing a brief excerpt from my featured poetry series. Words on survival, processing heavy spaces, and finding quiet hope. 🧠 👇"The weight we carry does not define us; the step we take despite it does."

New Publication! 🧠 🏛️ My non-fiction essay 'Synapses & Secrets: The Greek City in Your Brain' is live opening up Issue One of Thin Places Literary Journal Read it directly here; thin-places.org/about/

Last call! ⏳ My poem 'Pendulum for One' leaves the One Fall Review website tomorrow. Read it today before it goes; onefallreview.com

New release day! 🪙 My new drabble is featured in RatBag Lit’s 'Lucky Penny Day' anthology. Honored to be the first name on the cover page. Download the entire collection for free here: substack.com/redirect/42f...

It’s launch day! 🪙 My new drabble is featured in RatBag Lit’s 'Lucky Penny Day' anthology. Honored to be the first name on the cover page and the final piece in the book. Download the entire collection for free here: ko-fi.com/ratbaglit/shop

Healing isn't a linear progression; it's a complex equation of emotional balance navigating back toward equilibrium. My feature poem 'Entropy of Morning' is up today with Poetry For Mental Health, bridging health systems and raw recovery. 🧠❤️🩹 poetryformentalhealth.org

Honored to have a double feature out in the latest Rock Salt Journal! 'Lines' (fiction) and 'The Comfort of the In-Between' (nonfiction) both look at how we navigate changing geography and transitional states. Dm my profile to read both pieces! 🌊📖

Incredibly excited to share that my new poem 'Pendulum' is officially live with One Fall Review! 🕰️ This piece dives into kinetic momentum, balance, and navigating both ends of the spectrum in writing and life. It's on the homepage all week! onefallreview.com/2026/05/18/p...

My piece "REM sanctuary" is out now in Space & Time Mag 151! 🪐 Beyond the science of deep sleep systems, this issue features dedicated dyslexia-friendly formatting. Language shouldn't have structural barriers. Substack deep-dive link in profile! @spaceandtimemag.bsky.social

Systems slowing down. The friction of the week giving way to the inertia of the weekend. 🌙

Honored to be the featured poet for Poetry For Mental Health! 🔬🧮 As a math, science & health literacy writer, my poetry bridges data and the emotional journey of recovery. Read "Equation of Emotional Balance" here:🔗 poetryformentalhealth.org📬 Open for freelance writing & speaking gigs. DM me!

Closing out a 3-journal week! 🧬📖 Honored to have two pieces in the new Rock Salt Journal ("Lines" & "The Comfort of the In-Between") alongside my feature in Instant Noodles Lit. The "Lab on the Street" is officially finding its rhythm. 🧪🛣️ Read them here: rocksaltjournal.com/issues/curre...

Working on a new "Decoding" for my Substack today. 🧬📐 After the release of "From Cage to Street" in Instant Noodles Lit, I’ve been thinking a lot about the math of a journey. How do we calculate the distance between where we are and where we want to be free? instantnoodleslitmag.com 🍜

Come check out a new easy; where I speak quickly about The Second Law of Thermodynamics tamaraleewrites.substack.com/p/thermodyna...

Big news! 🍜 My article ‘From Cage to Street’ is featured in the May 2026 issue of Instant Noodles. An incredible look at the "physics of freedom." 🚶💨 Read the full update here: tamaraleewrites.substack.com#tamaraleewri...

The brain searches for patterns constantly, while prediction reduces uncertainty and increases efficiency. This also means humans often detect meaning inside randomness itself

Publication changes how a piece exists; once released, interpretation stops belonging entirely to the writer. Readers begin building different systems around the same text.

Probability is often misunderstood because people treat likely outcomes as guaranteed outcomes; this only describes the likelihood across possibilities. Uncertainty never fully disappears from complex systems.

Published a short satirical piece today. Satire is interesting because it compresses systems into absurdity without fully breaking realism. The exaggeration exposes the structure underneath.

Satire works because systems become easier to see once they’re exaggerated. Push a behaviour or structure slightly beyond normal limits and the underlying logic becomes visible. Distortion often reveals what realism hides.

Awareness is built through exclusion. Cognition works by removing information as much as processing it, what feels like complete perception is actually selective sampling.

perception feels immediate and objective, but it’s heavily filtered before it reaches awareness the brain removes enormous amounts of information to reduce cognitive load what you experience is compressed, edited data rather than raw reality

Smooth numbers don’t always mean smooth systems. Averages have the ability to hide extremes, risk, and uneven distribution. This is why interpretation matters as much as calculation.

Systems don’t require perfection. They require tolerance. In engineering and applied mathematics, outcomes operate within acceptable ranges. As long as values stay within those limits, the system functions correctly. Precision beyond that point often adds complexity without improving performance.

Measurement doesn’t just describe reality; it shapes how we interpret it. The same data expressed as a percentage, ratio, or absolute value can lead to completely different conclusions. The numbers haven’t changed, the framing has. Interpretation is not separate from representation.

Scale determines what you can see. At one level, a system looks stable. At another, it’s constantly shifting. This is why “stillness” is often misleading. It’s not that change has stopped—it’s that it’s happening outside the range we easily notice.

At the molecular level, nothing ever stands still. What is observed by us is a blur; of constant motion that we’ve averaged out over time. It’s a byproduct of how we observe the world. Our senses and tools take all that frantic vibrating and smooth it into a single, steady signal we can process.

What you perceive as stable, is usually a mean across constant variation.

At molecular scale, “stillness” doesn’t exist only motion we average out

Nix is actually still, you just stop seeing the movement.

Most breakthroughs don’t arrive during effort. They arrive after it.

The harder you try to solve it, the less space there is for it to form