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4 Jan 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr $0.16
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 $0.17
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 $0.09
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 $0.09
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....
28 Dec 2025 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr $0.32
From childhood, I was that classic bookish kid with glasses. I didn’t have those super thick bottle-bottom lenses, but my eyesight was pretty weak. I first noticed it in fifth grade, and when we went to the eye doctor, I remember he wasn’t exactl...
25 Dec 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr $0.45
Snowy days are cold, icy, and unforgiving, yet they undeniably weave breathtaking scenes across the landscapes beyond the city. Let's be honest: what we experience up close is worlds apart from what we glimpse from afar. No matter how deeply we try t...
24 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.06
Zelle: [email protected] Don't go to hell with the good people,steeples of the mind They say we're all the same,but in fact they think they're better than you; They talk down to you by nature Their virtue is a weapon They do not need to...
22 Dec 2025 2 minute read 7 comments Melina Mehr $0.19
You could say that both festivals speak of the same timeless narrative — in the deepest, darkest night of the year, light and hope are reborn. I always suspected that “Christmas” and “Yalda” both have common origin, so I searched a bit and came up...
22 Dec 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.06
When I tried to live with my dad the summer after my Freshman year of high school, my stepmother chased me around the house, screaming insults and verbal abuse like a demon. She only did it when my dad wasn't around. She was a master of gaslighting....
19 Dec 2025 1 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr $0.14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxaaGgTQYM Back then, when even the smallest bit of entertainment or joy was forbidden for us, this beautiful girl suddenly appeared from behind a window. Evanescence - Bring Me To Life It's said that Evanescence’...
