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1 Feb 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
My heart couldn’t bear it. I sent several messages—and then I learned the words that stopped my breath: “My sister had been shot” That night, when I finally reached home, my calls to my sister met only the same cold, mechanical voice: “The subs...
30 Jan 2026 3 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr
I can't believe it! We haven't had internet for three long days now! I'm going crazy. We can't even text each other. Phones, laptops, electronic devices seem so useless at this point... Damn it!... Let me at least share the rest of my story here... t...
20 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments TheAiCollectiveArt
WHY IS TIME Poem Why is time?but like the ocean by the sea?As We open our eyes,You see love? On a Mother's heart,Or by a Father's hug,You Grow to be apart. Why? Running through the bushes blinded,On a small flower,By my touch of the trees? You fill m...
19 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.”Proverbs 25:20 If "gospel" means "good news," what is gospel music, when the devil turns your joy into a death trip? Someti...
13 Jan 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Seven 1. Leopard print sunset; kittens in the Cool Whip. 2. Depart from me, ye pie rats! 3. Is this a motel, or a hungry Bible 4. Whale? 5. Sunlight has ripped the roof off. 6. The...
10 Jan 2026 8 minute read 1 comment Nathan Payne
"As the ICE agent in question attempts to walk around the SUV, apparently to assist his colleague in removing the poet from her vehicle, you can see that her tires are aimed screen right."Breitbart An angry lesbian is dead, an ICE agent is under fi...
4 Jan 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr
As nationwide protests in Iran enter yet another intense chapter, I felt the need, in the midst of all this, to look back at the years gone by—to remember the protests from decades past and the quiet, trembling memories I carry from my university d...
3 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Three 1. Come out with your hands down. 2. Release the clown. 3. Pickup the cup. 4. Go into town with your hands 5. Up. 6. The clown runs deep. 7. Put your bitchiness to sleep. 8....
1 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Two 1. I wash my hair in the laundrymart. I am the king of clothes. 2. I fold my subjects neatly. Television shirts are hanging by their dirtsleeves. 3. Honeybirds and bluebees; ma...
31 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-One 1. The vast, expansive landscape; the floor of a bloody, organic garage. 2. Candy wrapper skeletons; sugar bones melting in the heat. 3. Rattlesnake pomade; ocotillo hairbrush....
