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Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 20

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...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 19

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...

Well-Behaved Monsters: chapter 17

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...

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 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...

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...

Socieital Criticality

20 Jul 2025 1 minute read 4 comments theinspired

"Seek first to Understand, before being Understood."- Stephen R. Covey It's timeless wisdom and is so incredibly easy to understand but so incredibly hard to do! THINK ABOUT IT: Everything that everyone does, says, believes - makes PERFECT sense to T...

Do you know what I want to tell you?

17 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Evtuoil

No... when I wake up and you're next to me, I don't want to say anything and wake you up. Right now you're sleeping with your back to me and your feet are warming against mine-that's how they feed off my body heat.  Your body is breathing! YOU'RE ALI...