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DUSTY IS BETTER THAN WET
A widow buys a quiet bird for a quiet house. The pet shop says dusty droppings are better than wet ones. By August, the town is counting the sick, and the bird is still eating.
Can You Still Hear My Accent?
“I tell my father I need a ticket to leave Lebanon in a week. Years later, when he tells me he’s building a house on our village’s hills for me to inherit, I don’t have the heart to tell him I won’t be coming back.”
Three for the Week – July 24
Jake Gilmore breaks down some hot new songs. Please go stream “Becoming a Stranger” by Go Public, “Indu” by Greg Freeman, and “Breaking Atoms” by Chuck Strangers featuring billy woods and Zeroh. Support under-appreciated artists!
A Man Is What He Don’t Do
Ray had run a fence crew for thirty years and he had carried on with a woman out of Federalsburg for eleven of them, and Barbara had found out in 1990 and thrown him out and taken him back in six weeks. It was known. It had been known so long that it had stopped…
Pineshade Phantom
The river never forgets. Forty years ago, the town of Pineshade watched the masked killer known as the Phantom vanish into the black waters of the Silaq’tem. They told themselves it was over. They were wrong. Now Whispering Pines Amusement Park has turned the real murders into a multimillion-dollar haunted attraction—using the killer’s actual masks,…
Erin Roberts’ Reluctant Slasher: Clown Shoes & Crimson Shadows
Some monsters wear masks. Erin Roberts just wears clown shoes. Erin Roberts never asked to be the world’s most sarcastic vampire hunter. He definitely didn’t ask to become president of the brand-new Vampire Hunter League of America. One chaotic book later, he’s stuck leading a team of colorful slashers, a snarky AI sidekick, and a…
A Constitutional Question the Court Decided It Didn’t Want to Answer
When the Supreme Court handed down its decision this morning that states may bar transgender girls from girls’ and women’s sports teams, the headline wrote itself: a 6–3 majority upheld laws in West Virginia and Idaho restricting female athletics to biological females. What the headline obscures is how the majority got there, and the route…
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