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Proverbs of Smog #2

4 Sep 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

My cat caught me plagiarizing from the future tomorrow night, and has accused me of planting the so-called "Proverbs of Smog" in his litter box so that he could "discover" them and feel like he'd accomplished something significant.  I have been indic...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 23

3 Sep 2025 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Phil’s advice about girls plus drugs was questionable to begin with, and now finds itself collapsing on every side. He remains mostly trapped in his room, which is a sad, unfortunate turn of events. And though lacking specifics, it can basically...

Univ of Penn sent quantum network packet over Internet Protocol (IP)

3 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

Univ of Penn sent quantum network packet over Internet Protocol (IP)    For years we have heard how nuanced Quantum computing was and that it would obsolete legacy computing install bases. Well, Univ of Pennsylvania  just sent quantum networking requ...

The Stillness Between Heartbeats

3 Sep 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

Click to animate 🌿A short story, born from this art... Marcus discovered death wasn't an ending—it was the world's first honest pause. For thirty-seven years, he'd lived like a man being chased by silence. His days blurred together in a symphony o...

The cloudy sky is silent today.POETRY

3 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments nevlu123

I paint a picture of hope in the clouds,I find the sunshine in this sky.Even though it is cloudy, colorful dreams live in my eyes,The sky knows that the sun smiles after the rain. The cloudy sky is silent today,It seems that it is crying hidden behin...

Pablo Smog's Rules For Writing

2 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Note: The article Desertion of the Circus Animals contains more of my thoughts on this topic, and Raptured From A Kerouac Dream reminds me not to focus on it to the point that I neglect my spirit. But it was fun to write this out, and perhaps it will...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 22

2 Sep 2025 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Yes, I have a black name,” is one of the first things out of Shoniqua’s mouth, this maiden voyage meeting her. Though I haven’t mentioned that, she is apparently used to hearing such, hence the preemptive strike. Yet still must prefer it to he...

Proverbs of Smog #1

1 Sep 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

My cat is an amateur archaeologist, and while working on an excavation project in his litter box, he unearthed a book of ancient scrolls. I dusted the cover of the ancient tome, upon which was embossed in clear, modern English, "Proverbs of Smog." In...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 21

1 Sep 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Conversation at this table in Pardners is considerably less stimulating, though the potential looms large. Karaoke has gone okay, from a performance standpoint, but the song selection progressively poorer and even worse, boring, as this night...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 20

31 Aug 2025 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Tonal shifts arrive in subtle waves, the longer we continue to sit here. So much seems preordained in retrospect, considering the list of characters who behave exactly as one would expect. And yet this amounts to a longshot betting parlay, whe...