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The Cartridge That Wouldn't Blow Clean (short story)

4 hours ago 2 minute read 0 comments Ronnie Wrenshaw

The Game Boy screen flickered green before Dev even hit the power switch. That was the first wrong thing. The second was the cartridge itself, a gray brick with no label, found wedged behind the water heater in his grandfather's basement. No stickers...

Proverbs of Smog #79

11 hours ago 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Seventy-Nine 1. We dance by faith, and not by sight. 2. Burn your dreams. 3. Every night. 4. Say alrighty for the Almighty. 5. Keep your caffeine shoes on. 6. Which side of the machine ar...

A Mobile Phone, A Hidden Bond, and A Broken Stereotype!

19 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Afshan Sagheer

"A girl with a smartphone is a girl out of control." This is exactly what Afshan’s relatives whispered when her father proudly gifted her a mobile phone on topping her Matric exams. In a typical middle-class society, a smartphone in a young girl...

Forty-One Cars and Counting (short story)

19 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Ronnie Wrenshaw

The radio said fog, not this. Not a wall of white that swallowed the overpass whole and left Dana Okafor staring at brake lights that weren't there a second ago. She hit the brakes. The world behind her did not. Metal found metal in a sound she felt...

The Power of Faith and Hard Work: Aliza's Inspiring Journey

18 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Afshan Sagheer

This is the story of a girl who faced countless hardships in life, but she never backed down from any challenge. She had unwavering faith, first in God, and then in her own hard work. So, let’s begin. From a Small Village to College The girl's na...

They Burned the Only Backup That Mattered (short story)

18 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Ronnie Wrenshaw

The backup finished at 3:14 a.m., and Mara watched the progress bar hit one hundred percent with the specific relief of someone who has just saved something irreplaceable. "Confirmed," said the terminal. "Consciousness snapshot stored. Restore point:...

He Built a Time Machine to Save His Wife, But the Date He Chose Doesn't Exist Yet (short story)

17 Jul 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Ronnie Wrenshaw

The machine hummed at four percent charge when Dana knocked on the garage door for the third time that night. "You're going to blow the breaker again," she said. Warren didn't look up from the capacitor bank. "Forty more minutes." "It's midnight." "F...

The Last Scrum (short story)

16 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Ronnie Wrenshaw

The whistle blew and Tomasi didn't hear it. Not the sound of it, anyway. He felt it, a pressure change behind his eyes, the way you feel a door slam three rooms away. The scrum had collapsed. Bodies untangled around him, jerseys slick with mud, and s...

She Was Sent to Count a Dragon's Gold (short story)

15 Jul 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Ronnie Wrenshaw

The dragon's hoard was smaller than Meret expected, and that was the first thing that worried her. She had climbed four hundred feet of switchback trail with a magnifying loupe, a set of scales, and a letter of commission from the Guild of Assayers,...

I Found Twelve Words On A Wet Receipt And They Were Worth Someone's Entire Life (short story)

14 Jul 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Ronnie Wrenshaw

The receipt was stuck under a dumpster wheel outside the Shell on Ninth, half soaked, and I only picked it up because I collect paper for the shelter's recycling bin. Ten cents a pound if you haul enough. I almost tossed it back. Then I saw the handw...