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11 Feb 2024 2 minute read 2 comments the_game_nerd $0.09
In the early 1990s, as the world was transitioning into the digital age, a unique fusion of analog and interactive gaming emerged: "Nightmare," the VHS board game. This innovative creation brought together the tactile experience of tradi...
20 Jan 2024 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
Smiling as he climbs aboard his two decades old, powder blue Honda Goldwing motorcycle, Lenny rolls down the short gravel drive, and waits until he’s on the street before firing up the engine. The roommates at this house where he’s been stayin...
4 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.02
The main building has four bedrooms, all in a row on the northern side of the second floor. These were originally reserved for the kitchen staff, but in the absence of such, apart from Chef Jen, three fourths of them went unclaimed. Then Gr...
3 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
“Man, your timing could not be better!” Lenny had marveled, when Jeremy called him, not even 24 hours after losing his construction gig. “Yeah, he already agreed to it, on the spot,” Jeremy explains, “not that it really took much convincing...
2 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.02
“I need this!” Kay screams, hands out and fingers raised as if about to claw her mother. “I fucking NEED this, and YOU already agreed to it!” Emily and Denise are on their way over right now, this morning of their scheduled departure. Every...
31 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03
toy collection at an artists’ retreat “Lenny! Get over here!” the foreman, Bob Griffin, barks at him from across the muddy expanse of their work site. Rivet gun in hand, Lenny was en route to the makeshift elevator, which would take him t...
24 Dec 2023 4 minute read 1 comment jasonmcgathey $0.03
Sometimes Kay resents the relationship Emily has with her parents. Well, not resent, exactly, more like it fills her with profound sadness, and leads to bouts of fantasy when contemplating the situation over here. She often wonders how di...
23 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
Doll tornado in an artists’ retreat Emily is uncertain about a great deal concerning her background. By all rights, she should probably be one of the snobbish popular girls. And even as things have always stood, most would probably agree...
22 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
The return trip southwest, to their hometown of Jenson, NC, takes right at an hour. This region one of those odd pits devoid of interstates, between the two points, a drive involving state routes and country roads between countless towns...
21 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
As they are leaving with pamphlets and all kinds of other information in hand, Kidwell points out, heartily chucking as he does, that if they had never turned off onto this road, they were actually moving in the right direction and would...
