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May 3, 2022
An Appointment at Hoover’s Gap
It wasn’t the fighting that bothered us as much as it was the waiting. Those long days that dragged out into weeks, and then into months, of sitting…
May 2, 2022
“Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair” and “What Happens in Vagus; or, How I Spent My Third Lockdown”
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair I was sat with my back to the side of a hot pan Chaffing at the heels, with warm scents in my hair…
May 2, 2022
That Party at Liam’s
Liam was a fucking loser. His nickname in high school was “Eeyore.” He applied to one local college, got in, and then got on probation. Then he got…
May 1, 2022
“No Country for White Men” and “At the Burial”
No Country for White Men Hunt the unmarked turn-off, missing it completely. Then U-turn on the high-speed two-laner to nowhere, through disappointed…
May 1, 2022
Pilot Episode: House of the Dead — Cancelled
---BEEP--- [Roll Scene: “Previously on House of the Dead”/Nothing Available] The morning I awoke, my house was as quiet as a tomb. “Ginger: you up,…
April 30, 2022
Stunning Shepherd
I was an altar boy in the church of a town in the Serranía de Cuenca. My little girlfriend from the College was blessed because she always put…
April 30, 2022
Mirror, Mirror… Part 5
It was another couple of weeks before she heard from the mirror again. This time Evelyn saw Evie, older again and pregnant. “Ah, Evie is going to…
April 29, 2022
“The Gentrifier,” “The Fearmaker,” and “The Equalizer”
The Gentrifier I am the Gentrifier. I am the Yin to White Flight's Yang. First I lower it until you neglect it, Then I inflate it until you can’t…
April 29, 2022
Together Again
A bad habit, viewing so early in the morning. Logging off, forgetting to renew her subscription, Daphne quickly gathered her things and left the…
April 28, 2022
“Prologue,” “Choppers,” “The Day the Press Stood Up,” and “Coda”
Prologue All my closest friends remained behind in the Hell Zones. And I understood. There were shortages, yes, lockdowns and supply-chain…