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"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - G5

24 Aug 2023 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  It’s strange how certain topics get lofted into the air, and begin to catch fire due to their momentum, when you’ve mentioned your own recent preoccupation with them to no one. Of course, skeptics will claim that it’s only because you are cu...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - F5

23 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Healthy Shopper Market’s quasi-mountain outpost   Walnut is a city of approximately 40,000, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The interstate neatly cleaves it into two distinct sections, one of which is modern and heavy wit...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - D5

21 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Sections 2–18 of the Southside beer empire   The last week of the year, Southside and Palmyra both finally hit their magical $100K mark for the first time. Duane is on the floor at both locations, handing out $100 bills as promised to every em...

Hostile Environment 🌊🌬️

21 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Life Addicteds 🌶

He felt on his now numb legs the warmth of that past summer playing with his son. The saltpeter matted his hair and beard as he kept remembering his life, abandoning himself adrift on a wet floating wooden plank.He was the cook of a modest boat tha...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - C5

17 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

A mere 1/30th of the Beer Ambassador’s display space. At Southside.   This isn’t to suggest that Palmyra has cornered the market on personnel — or personality — struggles. Naturally, after months of relative calm, many of these bombshells just...

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...

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...

I Love You

30 Jun 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Espressoytonica

I love you as the waves love the cliffs,That crash against them, yet never tire. I love you as the wind loves the sails, That fill them up and carry them higher. I love you as the earth loves the rain, That nourishes her and makes her grow again. I l...

Past

29 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica

The past, alas! is but a dream, A fading shadow, vague and dim; A vision that our eyes may seem To see, but cannot grasp or limn. The past, alas! is but a sigh,A mournful echo, far and lone;A voice that seems to sob and cry, But dies upon the ear alo...

Caged Bird

28 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica

I The heart is a blackened coal That burns and smoulders still, And the mind is a barren soil Where no flowers can ever will. II The soul is a caged bird That beats its wings in vain, And the body is a corpse that girds Its shroud about it again. III...