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"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - J5

28 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Health & Beauty for hearty wholesome hippies   They begin moving into the Walnut location on the first, which gives them a month to get this operation up and running. Under normal circumstances, this would be nowhere near enough time, but unlike...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - I5

27 Aug 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Cut in someone’s house, perhaps, but not this one.   As they begin moving into the Walnut location, it makes perfect sense to roll this into a company-wide rearrangement. Palmyra’s produce manager, Johnny, has requested a transfer to work in W...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - E5

22 Aug 2023 6 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

As much wine as would fit in the frame   Out here in the wild and woolly retail landscape, it’s often unclear whether keeping these incidents to oneself is the right thing to do. You could certainly advance a valid argument that sweeping somethi...

Miron: Mariupol's Baby

14 Aug 2023 2 minute read 6 comments rah

One of the things that got me interested in crypto was the desire to earn passive income and while i still am hodling (for that is all I am doing for the time being) I am also looking at other ways to increase my passive income and one of the alterna...

Fragment 88

5 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Jay Lonnquist

First there came a caressing vanguard: a wavy lap unceasing.  Pressing and swishing bitumen-swells against the flotilla’s restive, salt-discoloured hulls.  These waves grew measurably choppier, as the false-dawn born of bright Sufa and its obscene ho...

The War on Sirius B - Part 2 (Fiction)

3 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk

She slammed the door and rushed out into the pouring rain. Her mind could not forget the last words Tony whispered in her ears while all the others were arguing about the upcoming bootcamp. It’s been two decades since Marshall left the group and what...

Please Don't Shoot, But I'm Taking a Break

31 Jul 2023 4 minute read 9 comments Allen Taylor

Today, I'm breaking with my normal routine to post on a Monday to make an announcement. Regular readers know I've been writing about Web3 topics for two years and separately about Christian topics for about as long. On Wednesdays, I curate the top ne...

Flown

9 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica

Oh, the days have flown so swiftly by,Since first thy heart I won, And in thine eyes I saw the sigh Of love, which ne'er was done. Oh, the nights have flown so swiftly by,Since first thy lips I pressed, And in thine arms I felt the sigh Of love, whic...

A Plea for Peace

3 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica

The world is weary of the din of war,The clash of arms, the scream of shell and mine;Weary of blood, and weary of the dinOf hatred's voice, and of the lust of crime. Weary of strife, and weary of the tearsThat flow from eyes of women and of men;Weary...

Fragment 87

29 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist

It is known that after the Paper God had abandoned the Here for the Otherwhere. Its unutterable consort, Sufa the Braided, descended into a maelstrom of horror and unbalance. Shedding tears of salt a thousand-fold more caustic than the anguish of any...