By Michael Loyd Gray I reckon them Harvard people are smart enough alright. For woke folk, anyway. One of them wrote just the other day on how maybe space aliens walk among us. They might be smack-dab on the next bar stool. Or in line at Walgreen’s. The pretty little cashier with a swishing ponytail…| LIBRE
You, specifically, are being watched by a crow. Not “people in general.” Not “someone out there.” You. This is not a metaphor. This is not a spiritual fable. This is not a goth phase. This is science. We have charts. We have caw-based data. We have a control group that accidentally summoned a parliament of ravens instead (they’re fine now, mostly). Over a 24-month observational study funded by a grant we may have misunderstood (thank you, Department of Unusual Phenomena and Municipa...| Defenestration
Existential fear has descended upon the venerable stacks of the Silicon Valley College library. Darkness at Noon is among the first to feel it, and not just because of the rat-tat-tatting of jackhammers. Something ominous is also taking place inside: library personnel are yanking cartloads of books| Defenestration
The horoscope read, “The universe hums. Slow down and listen.” Her maximalist bedroom glittered with gilded nonsense; clinomania kept her enthroned beneath silk. A jeweled clutch dangled by its strap. Beside her, The Hitchhiker’s Guide lay open. She dreamed herself Trillian, adrift with Zaphod Beeblebrox and Slartibartfast, their tongue-twister names as ordinary as tea in… Continue reading As tea in outer space→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
I had the strangest dream last night. I was running through a Beauty and the Beast-esque castle while being chased by a cartoon policeman. A life-long lucid dreamer, I immediately knew this was a dream, not because the law was on my heels in a Disney-inspired castle, but because I was too tall—a miraculous six feet—and also deaf. I was carrying a small grey backpack with a frozen baby inside it. Despite being rock solid in its frozen cage, the baby was somehow alive. My mission was to tak...| Defenestration
Crossing through the thicket of honeysuckle and valerian that line the path, my daughter and I step over decaying trunks and rusting time. The air is thick with jewelweed and […]| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
i got a co-star notification that said, "destroy with purpose." the app is a novelty at best. the notifications come to me like a sims 1 prank call. the "message from the universe" timing can be silly or ominous.| my varnished soapbox
Leila's front wheel wobbles when she cycles over a crack in the tarmac. A car behind blares its horn as she struggles to steady the books in her basket and keep her summer dress from flaring up. 'You daft old cow,' the driver yells as he overtakes. He waves a flabby arm at her, blurry tattoos str| Defenestration
Well, here we are. Once again closing out a year. I don't have much that's very flowery to say. While it's not necessarily a tradition I enjoy, the end of the year brings with it a sort of melancholic existential dread that poisons my enthusiasm to ring in the new year. It's been a pretty tiring year, for unexpected reasons. And some very expected, due to the whole, Life Experience that the world continues to bring with it every subsequent year. It's exponential. This was my 40th full year on...| Dispatch from the Radical Dreamland
this post was originally written for the final couple days of cohost, a long-form social media site that as of october 1st will be sunsetting.| Dispatch from the Radical Dreamland
“The Endstate of History,” flash fiction by Bernie Jean Schiebeling| Electric Literature
Dear Kevin in 3C: Congratulations on the five-day bender. Incredible. How did all those people fit in your apartment? My wife and I thought nothing would ever top your last Labor Day marathon. You’re an inspiration, Kevin. We used to get wild. The baby made us forget. But you’re our reminder, Kev| Defenestration
“At the time of the episode,” Dr. Levin said at the conference, “Subject C didn’t recall it was her birthday. When prompted, she said, ‘I feel like an invalid.’” It was, he noted, a revealing momen…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
The lovely thing about a personal blog almost nobody ever reads is that you can use it almost like a diary. So I can use this post for personal encouragement and as a reference point throughout this year to check on my own objectives.| Techdecline's Blog
Thursday, June 12, 2025: I’ve started a new blog about our year living abroad in Costa Rica. If you’d like to follow me there, check it out here: a pura vida year in costa rica Some of my first posts […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Saturday, May 31, 2025: Welcome to our May cocktail hour. May was another busy month for us as we wrapped up our U.S. business and flew out to Costa Rica. Let’s have some margaritas, in some new margarita glasses I […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Listed below are the Winners of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Winners appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Listed below are the Finalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Finalists appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Semifinalists appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Sunday, March 2, 2025: We were sad today to leave our apartment in San Miguel de Allende. We left and drove directly to Querétaro, our last stop for 3 nights before returning to the U.S. We were lu…| ~ wander.essence ~
Arrival in San Miguel de Allende Tuesday, February 25, 2025: We arrived at our two-story apartment at Calvario 8 in San Miguel de Allende on Tuesday late afternoon and promptly went out to a market to pick up some breakfast […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Jane Austen, Chawton, Hampshire| The Culturium
April 22, 2022 - In the 60th anniversary year of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, and the first anniversary of The Ecological Disciple, we look at a piece of writing that can help us take on even our current environmental crises. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
Dietmar Busse: Fairytales 1991-1999 at Amant| LONESOME PRESS
Across three decades working in I.T., I've had the opportunity to observe some spectacularly good and spectacularly bad managers. I feel like writing an homage to the three that were the most memorable. --- Name obfuscation methodology I will be using the real name of the individuals mentioned, but I …| R.L. Dane
A Grief Fulfilled| rldane.space
WARWICK, R.I. — A story by Tony Pacitti, inspired by a walk through Rocky Point, an abandoned amusement park.| Scrawl Place
A soul walks, dreams in its lonesome. What is housed in this museum of melancholic romance?1 A musician fighting with the void.2 A sculptor caressing the form within. A philosopher who perceives mysterious powers that cannot be explained.3 A poet producing sounds in a private theater of mourning. Alchemists. Voyagers. Healers. Those who respond to…| LONESOME PRESS
Jack Kerouac's "Alone on a Mountaintop" beautifully explores the art of being on one's own atop Desolation Peak, Washington State.| The Culturium
February 22, 2024 - A Sand County Alamanac, published 75 years ago, still has much to teach us about the land and our place upon it. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
January 25, 2024 - First up in a short series, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard, is a work that has significantly shaped how I, and many others, see the natural world and our relationship to it. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
