Written By: Connor Upton In the mountain of three million pages recently released by the Department of Justice, one of the most damning pieces of evidence of Jeffrey Epstein’s survival in high society is not a flight log or a bank transfer, but a simple unredacted spreadsheet titled “Movie Log 2013”, or EFTA00585883 . The document serves as the central hub for the story of how Epstein and his employees rehabilitated the image of the disgraced financier and sex criminal in the public eye, and how his presence was normalized among elite individuals. On the surface, the document seems trivial....

Written By: Connor Upton This article originally appeared in the InTheAtticZine Newsletter . More writing like this, plus fiction, games coverage, and the full zine, is available to download free over there. When we think of a sprawling Expanded Universe, our minds usually drift to longboxes stuffed with crossover comic events, or a shared sci-fi galaxy where every character gets a name and home planet just to flesh out the spaces between blockbuster movies....

Chrono-Wing: Attack of the Interstellar Thing! By Connor Upton | InTheAtticDev This short story first appeared in InTheAtticZine #2 on June 8th, 2026, as the issue's cover story. More fiction, games coverage, and the full zine are available to download free over there. Where this sits in the timeline: This is a prequel to the arcade game Chrono-Wing and its sequel Cosmic Collector . Lance Concord's patrol takes place before the Xylosian Swarm reaches Earth — both games are free to play here on site....

The Heartstone Crystal By Connor | InTheAtticDev Archived Draft This story is no longer considered up to date or hard canon within the Heartstone game or the wider world of Valeria. Elements of the lore, characters, and events here have since changed or been dropped entirely. It stays on the site as a piece of history, as it shipped with Beta 1.0 of 'The Crystal Caverns'. It is also a way to look back and see how the stories and characters evolved across the years. Grand King Requinnic stood amidst the ruins of the divine order, the air thick with the dust of shattered gods....

The Rogue of Turtle Lake By Connor | InTheAtticDev First Look These early Turtle Lake stories are a first look at Marla's character. I'm currently shaping this material up as part of a short novel, so expect the version you read here to differ in parts from where she ends up. For more on where that's headed, check out the Roadmap . The moon was a traitor in the night. It hung fat and white in the sky, shining light through the wilting fall leaves of giant oak trees. For a creature of shadow with fur the color of moss, the environment felt like a death sentence....

Written By: Connor Upton This last year has been like watching a train barrel full-steam towards a collapsed bridge while you sit helpless, waiting for it to crash into the canyon below. When Theodore Roosevelt cemented the image of the American 'cowboy diplomat' on the world stage, he did so with a specific philosophy: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Roosevelt, an East Coast aristocrat who deliberately adopted a rugged Badlands persona, understood that true power didn't require constant explosions or boastful rhetoric....

The Rogue of Turtle Lake II By Connor | InTheAtticDev First Look These early Turtle Lake stories are a first look at Marla's character. Some elements may change, as I'm currently shaping this material up as part of a short novel. For more on where that's headed, check out the Roadmap . The Story So Far… Marla the Catperson, once servant to the Pacifian Knight Commander, has turned traitor. After uncovering a ruthless plot to annihilate entire communities for resources, she fled Castle Pacifia and the iron grip of the Red Knights....

Written By: Connor Upton On Monday, March 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Hemani. The case centers on a Texas man, Ali Danial Hemani, who was indicted under § 922(g)(3) when the FBI searched his house and found a Glock 9mm handgun, 60 grams of marijuana, and 4.7 grams of cocaine. He wasn't intoxicated when the gun was found nor was he accused of a violent crime. The government's entire case rests on the fact he owned a gun, was found to have these two controlled substances in his possession, and admitted to smoking the marijuana....

The Prime Mover: Talent, Restraint, and the Journey By Connor Upton | InTheAtticDev This article first appeared in InTheAtticZine #2 on June 8th, 2026. More writing like this, plus fiction, games coverage, and the full zine, is available to download free over there. " Portrait of a man who thinks and thereby gets things done. Mr. Jimbo Cobb might be called a prime mover, a talent which has to be seen to be believed. In just a moment, he'll show his friends and you how he keeps both feet on the ground– and his head in The Twilight Zone....