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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...
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...
31 Aug 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
As though an omnipotent superbeing, Robby calls me for the first time in months, wondering if I might want to hit happy hour. Apart from the occurrence itself, the strangest aspect to this is that I was planning on calling him this afternoon a...
30 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Prompted Beauty
Click to animate 🌿A short story, born from this art... In the dim hours when night clung stubbornly to the world, I found her—or perhaps she found me. I'd taken the scissors to my hair just days before, standing over the sink in that cramped bathr...
29 Aug 2025 22 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
I get it, though. If you’re going to entertain some unusual notions about conquering this daily farce, then you risk others not exactly endorsing your stunts. And this is possibly a positive. The fewer bodies jammed onto this elevator — regard...
29 Aug 2025 8 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… Pyna and Umin were led with an uneasy wariness down the onyx-dark dune-face, and into the heart of the nascent corsair’s encampment. Which had bloomed in a short while like a collection of canvas-woven mushrooms. Between th...
28 Aug 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Answers on the Joe front arrive soon enough. Curiosity insatiable, Dylan makes a point of tracking our old friend down at his parents’ house, to get the full scoop. It seems that my instincts were spot on, regarding the weird timing on that mi...
28 Aug 2025 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Even though I’m not so sure he knows what he’s talking about, Phil seems quite convinced of this point. And he is presumably enjoying some success with this approach, out on the town with Jen. Or more accurately, at Bootleggers with Jen, where...
27 Aug 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
It’s amazing how nothing ever progresses in a straight line. Yet a discernible link exists between effort extended and the results achieved — it’s just that instead of linear motion, right angles, curves, and other irregular routes are far mor...
26 Aug 2025 4 minute read 0 comments RosieJSargent
The therapist's room was just as you'd expect it. An oak desk scattered with pens, paper, and paperweights. Windows abandoned by the daylight. Amber lamps and weak bulbs conjured shadows upon strange paintings that invoked nothing. An hourglass...
