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Patrick’s Endgame When Words Fall on Deaf Ears
Edward Curtin
“I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me...
A Plague of Saints
J R Leach
In the digital age, the incessant calls to action reverberate across the virtual landscape, summoning legions of fervent warriors...
The Unexpected
Edward Curtin Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises...
An Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin “Standing there I wondered how much of what we had felt on the bridge was just hunger....
Radical Dismissal
Todd Hayen Here’s another weird thing I think is going on. Like most things I observe, you have probably...
Rock Piles
Sylvia Shawcross We didn’t go here before did we? Come with me now. It’s a sunny spring day. You...
Have We Lost the Ability to Fall in Love?
Todd Hayen I really need everyone’s input on this one because it does scare me if it is true....
So What?
Todd Hayen How many of you out there have experienced this? You are having a conversation with a normie...
Injected Narcissism
Todd Hayen Along with mRNA coursing through our veins (probably not yours and definitely not mine) there is a...
Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin “Method, Method, what do you want from me? You know that I have eaten of the fruit of...
Chance Encounters as the Walls Close In
Edward Curtin “A treasure stumbled upon, suddenly; not gradually accumulated, by adding one to one. The accumulation of learning,...
The Tyranny of Cause and Effect Scientism
Todd Hayen The rape of the natural world is the phallic-like invasion of scientism. With its intent to rip...
Do People Change?
Edward Curtin Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world,...
No one is crowing now
Sylvia Shawcross It is the first time the crows did not come in the morning. Under the red sun...
Death by Pixels
Sylvia Shawcross I am living out my days in what once was a forested community but now a growing...
Rehearsed Lives and Planned History
Edward Curtin “The technical achievement of advanced industrial society, and the effective manipulation of mental and material productivity have...
Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is...
There Is No Escape From Telling
Edward curtin By the lake’s lapping shore above the town and the railroad tracks, my wife and I stopped...
Art Equals Human—Not Anymore
Todd Hayen
When I was a young lad of 11, I was fascinated with computers, or what little there was of...
Positive Thinking
Todd Hayen I keep trying to feel good, and I try to see the good in my life, the...