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Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 14

25 Aug 2025 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Joe is not the only person who has no plans on lassoing up cowgirls. This would also apply to my newest roommate, Phil Laswell. But what am I actually dealing with, here? A well documented intense metal guy, yes, yet otherwise almost entirely...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 13

25 Aug 2025 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

It’s open for debate exactly why we stop wearing our wedding rings out every night. Safe to say, moral obligations are not part of the equation. Nor any doubts whatsoever about their effectiveness. If not quite horrified themselves, Pete and t...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 12

24 Aug 2025 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

It’s open for debate exactly why we stop wearing our wedding rings out every night. Safe to say, moral obligations are not part of the equation. Nor any doubts whatsoever about their effectiveness. If not quite horrified themselves, Pete and the...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 11

22 Aug 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Of course, I do tell the guys about Peggy, though not exactly as a boast. If not for the greater significance attached to it, then I probably wouldn’t have mentioned fucking her to anyone at all. Yet, in light of what it confirms about our theor...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 10

21 Aug 2025 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Hanging out around the old apartment, alone, it’s Monday night and I recognize that this is the last one I’ll ever spend here. Tomorrow is the 31st of January, and come morning, I’m going to load up the last few items remaining here into my car,...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 9

19 Aug 2025 20 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Dylan deploys his ruse of not being able to figure out these trivia machines. And they weren’t leaving anyway, as it turns out, only moving up to the bar due to the spotty waitstaff service over here. Introducing themselves at last, from greatest to...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 8

18 Aug 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

A few nights later, as the weekend finally arrives, Joe meets Dylan and me over at my soon to be vacated apartment, and we can’t resist telling him about our findings. Though the purpose of this evening is for these two to help me move my heavy...

Bob O'Clock: A Time Odyssey

18 Aug 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you forth as circus freaks in the midst of businessmen: be ye therefore wise as comedians, and harmless...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 7

17 Aug 2025 5 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

Despite this encouraging result, however, this doesn’t necessarily prove anything, regarding whether these wedding rings work or not. It’s a tiny sample size, but there’s also a problem here in how that whole interaction had developed. The exper...

The Blue Breath of Pixels

16 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Prompted Beauty

Click to animate A short story, born from this animation. The Bloom and I were old acquaintances. For months, it had been the first and last thing I saw in my digital world—a silent, static flower frozen in a state of perfect, corporate serenity on...