Notes From 3AM
Aug 2026 · Love Across Borders Publishing
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Poems from the hour when honesty has nowhere left to hide. Notes From 3AM lives at the hour the defenses come down. These are the thoughts that surface once the world is asleep and the mind refuses to follow it: loneliness, a sudden clarity that only arrives in the dark, a low dread, and now and then an unexpected peace. They are set down in the plain, fragment-driven voice that runs through all of Shaun J Apple's work, and they read best the way they were made, alone and late, when you cannot sleep either. There is a specific comfort in them, the comfort of proof that someone else was awake at the same hour, thinking the same unspeakable things and refusing to pretend otherwise. It comes from a poet who founded two of Reddit's largest communities and composes with PTSD and chronic illness, conditions that keep their own late hours. It does not try to fix the hour. It keeps you company inside it, which at 3 a.m. is the only thing that has ever actually helped. For night owls, insomniacs, and anyone who has watched a ceiling until it turned gray with morning. Keep it on the nightstand. It knows what time it is.
Poems from the hour when honesty has nowhere left to hide. Notes From 3AM lives at the hour the defenses come down. These are the thoughts that surface once the world is asleep and the mind refuses to follow it: loneliness, a sudden clarity that only arrives in the dark, a low dread, and now and ...
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Shaun J Apple is an American author, poet, and publisher whose work draws on a life shaped by travel, family, online communities, illness, and change. For more than twenty-five years, he has traveled through nearly one hundred countries, built online communities that reached millions, worked in internet harm reduction, raised a family across continents, and continued creating through Crohn’s disease, PTSD, retinal detachments, and partial vision loss. He founded r/trees and r/gonewild and helped administer Bluelight, one of the internet’s largest harm-reduction communities. His work spans memoir, poetry, philosophy, relationships, politics, travel, humor, and children’s literature, united by a conviction that experience matters, connection is worth protecting, and nobody is disposable. He publishes through Love Across Borders Publishing, the independent house he founded to create a lasting literary record from an impermanent life.
Shaun J Apple is an American author, poet, and publisher whose work draws on a life shaped by travel, family, online communities, illness, and change. For more than twenty-five years, he has traveled through nearly one hundred countries, built online communities that reached millions, worked in i...
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