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Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 30

16 Sep 2025 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Hawaiian outfits, however, are a nonstarter thus far, at least in any typical beachy type setting. We have set this concept simmering on the back burner for deployment elsewhere. Mostly, anyhow – one advantage that I seemingly have which Dylan does n...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 29

16 Sep 2025 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Somehow I keep returning to this notion that the more successes any of us experience, the less likely we are to dispense advice. Still, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly where on the spectrum this dot might lie. Or should I say, these multiple coordinat...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 28

14 Sep 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Regardless where you are, something important is always happening. It’s just that you cannot possibly always know — indeed, will usually have extremely misguided notions concerning — where to properly allocate your attention. Attempts at assigning i...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 27

12 Sep 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Us three guys decide to stroll up the street, to the next insanely packed bar. Here, a more middle aged yet somehow much crappier cover band has set up shop, and I’m not exactly surprised to hear Boat Drinks followed by Rupert Holmes’s Escape, immed...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 26

10 Sep 2025 20 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Still, we don’t get around to assembling the Buffett costumes until our ship is about to leave the harbor, when the final horn is blowing. As the first big party weekend of the unofficial summer approaches, Dylan’s lame coworkers nonetheless cobble...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 25

8 Sep 2025 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Friday afternoon finds me standing inside a Goodwill, just around the corner from our apartment. Though each of us conducts his own research independently, the chosen subject is identical. Namely, as summer inexplicably approaches much sooner than s...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 24

5 Sep 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

That’s my take on the situation, too, that a few drinks might help the situation. Regarding Big Phil’s assertion about the impact of drugs, eh, not so much, for it seems mighty obvious how that’s working out. A radio is just barely audible in his ro...

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...

The Stillness Between Heartbeats

3 Sep 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Prompted Beauty

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...

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...