Letters from the Quiet Half

Letters from the Quiet Half

Why does she hold my spark plug when she sleeps?
Why she reaches for the one part of you nobody else may touch, why she does it unconscious, and why you’ve been answering a question she never asked.
 • Lee Hopkins
Why does he always want to touch my tits?
I'm sixty-seven and I have a massage most weeks. Somewhere in the middle of it, my body decides that what's happening is sexual. It isn't. Working out…
 • Lee Hopkins
What it costs to keep the receipts
Gman is right about the moral injury. I want to add the part the rage can’t afford to say, because I’ve watched that particular invoice come due.
 • Lee Hopkins
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: Real Experience, Slow Science
The gut punch is real. The manual just hasn't caught up.
 • Lee Hopkins
The library is open—press play
Two AI voices talk each book through, start to finish, in about twenty minutes—machine-made, human-checked. Put one on and you'll know whether the…
 • Lee Hopkins
Embracing Neurodiversity
Substack article—free to read. Paid subscribers can read the whole book today.
 • Lee Hopkins
My imaginary friend has a business model
On AI companionship, from a psychologist who has actually used it.
No one is buried under the floorboards
On the fortnight my inbox staged a fight that nobody turned up to
 • Lee Hopkins

June 2026

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