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Spinning Petals of Freedom: An Independence Day Story

16 Aug 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Greenchic

Created using Canva   Flavor of the Indian Independence Day with celebrations and hearty wishes! It’s a special day today for all Indians because it’s August 15th! It’s Independent India’s 78th birthday! … So, we celebrate Indian Independence Day an...

The Black Article

16 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

There are many things I'd like to tell you. But I can't. I won't. I would if I wasn't beholden to the wouldn't. But I can't. It isn't possible. I couldn't.   This is a no writing zone. No writing allowed. No reading, no writing, nor eating. No writin...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 6

15 Aug 2025 15 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

“IT DOES MATTER!” Pete Ravage screams, in this brightly lit aisle, near the front of the department store. Passing shoppers pause with their carts, shoot querulous glances our way. Dylan and I exchange similar looks ourselves, wondering just how...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 5

14 Aug 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

If Aaron is the slightly older, composed and well put together friend, then Robby is the crass inversion of those attributes. Slightly older than us as well, and even usually dressing snazzily when out on the town, but his behavior lies at the u...

The Weight of Forgotten Summers

14 Aug 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Prompted Beauty

Click to animate A short story, born from this animation. The morning finds me the way it always has these past seven years: rooted to this spot like some cursed oak, my feet having long forgotten the language of movement. But today feels different...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 4

13 Aug 2025 18 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Eventually, blessedly, Joe talks Angel into pouting instead at that corner table with Dylan, Pete, and Phil. When they leave, Aaron and I move a few steps closer to the dance floor railing, a seemingly prime spot right by the gap in said railing...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 3

11 Aug 2025 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

After Joe climbs into Angel’s miniature coupe, they follow us in still another direction, north across town to Jumpers. As we approach the entrance, a doorman in a chair is checking IDs, standard protocol at places like these. Except upon reachi...

"I myself am the one I am trying to escape from."

11 Aug 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Ugly Drawings

In some of my experiences, I was wealthy and powerful. I had a very, very bad temper. I spent my time walking around, thinking about things that drove me crazy, and I ended up changing the course of history in impressive ways. Every time I understood...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 2

10 Aug 2025 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Upon our return, we can see that about half of Dylan’s lame older coworkers — older only in the sense that they are in their late 30s to middle 40s — have left. The rest have ventured across the aisle for seats at the bar, presumably as an act o...

Fragment 113

10 Aug 2025 8 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

In the end, Pyna very nearly scoffed. And would have drifted back to her high and refulgent manor, had Elshad not pleaded the peculiar nature of his need… Listening to his entreaty, she felt caught in the unquiet commingle of old, rankling memory. An...