Literature & Poetry
Black Box
A short fiction piece about a girl, a girl, a hallway, a kitchen, and perhaps another glass of wine.
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Literature & Poetry
POEM: crab apple
A poem about crab apples and self-acceptance, when who you are doesn’t seem to be ‘enough’ in someone else’s eyes.
Culture & Identity
The Deconstruction Construction Project; Documented
As humans, we are drawn towards what is familiar and safe; we desperately claw at comfort and reject discomfort. But what happens to us when we are completely out of our element?
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
Love, fairness and the problem of value
This essay is primarily concerned with love as a moral action between two volitions. It is critical of the instrumental view of reality adopted in contemporary conceptions of economics, and utilitarian ethics.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
That Fairness is a Quality of Love
Fairness is the quality of love that does not subjectify or objectify but enfolds as the father did his prodigal son. In it is the love that radiates and the love that soothes, the love that comes from the ocean and the sun
Culture & Identity
Respecting Antigone
This is the commiserating heart that is both rare and common: common as in all men and women possess it; rare as in few bring it to finality. Antigone was able to maintain her original heart and develop her virtue, immortalising herself and her love for her loved ones.
Culture & Identity
Our purpose
Ninth Heaven exists to bring to light the good things of the world and to inspire the human spirit to the good.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
The Ascension, and Will of Heaven
We have a moral prerogative, an instillation within our nature, a call of destiny, that those of us, those of us with ability–or with the impetus to seek to become capable–must thoroughly transform and be the bedrock and foundation of our culture.