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Black Cats
He hated walking past the vacant lot. He walked to work every evening - he worked the night shift - and the lot was in between his apartment and his new job. He couldnβt avoid it without going a long ways out of his way, but he hated walking past it. It wasnβt the lot, so much. It was the cats.
By Laura DePace4 months ago in Fiction
Plainclothes (2025)
Plainclothes is my kind of film. I take along my 1940s imaginary screenwriter persona, and she complains about not being able to smoke in cinemas. But I reassure her, reviews have been mostly positive, and it won an award at the Sundance Film Festival. I knew I wanted to see it from the trailer. It is a small budget, independent film, with a small cast, telling a story that could easily be overlooked or dismissed. My kind of film.
By Rachel Robbins4 months ago in Geeks
818. Honorable Mention in Parallel Lives Challenge. Content Warning.
The one thing that really fucking sucked was that she missed her children, and it defeated the purpose of getting an actual break. Though this break was warranted and needed. She had begun to slip into a deep dark hole. She was losing herself, slowly becoming an emotionless robot that was on autopilot for her kids and husband.
By Esmoore Shurpit4 months ago in Fiction
Review of 'A House of Dynamite'
I grew up in a world in which Dr. Strangelove was a plausible movie, a world in which we lived with the Soviet Union, armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, as were we, and our best chance that we wouldn't blow up the Earth, if not to smithereens, to an uninhabitable planet, was MAD -- the mutually assured destruction that a nuclear war would engender, which would stop we human beings from ever starting such a no-win war.
By Paul Levinson4 months ago in The Swamp
Happiness and Light Unofficial Challenge
INTERJECTION INTERRUPTION UPDATE - Added all the entries we've received so far, and just wanted to bump this up to remind people it's still open. You still have time to enter a piece for either or both parts of the challenge - we have only received pieces for the first part of the challenge so far. - Paul Stewart, a writer. One half of the temporary twosome of John and Paul, but not Ringo and George.
By Paul Stewart3 months ago in Writers
Parallel Lives Challenge Winners
One small moment, two lives unfolding. In Parallel Lives, writers stepped into the in-between, the crossroads where a single decision can redraw everything. Some followed their characters into dreamlike symmetry, others into chaos, but each story revealed the haunting beauty of what might have been.
By Vocal Curation Team4 months ago in Resources
Every The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror - Rated and Ranked (Part One)
In the time since its premiere back in 1989, The Simpsons has amassed nearly 800 episodes, and while the long-running animated sitcom rarely retreads the exact same stories, fans know that they can always look forward to a new Treehouse of Horror every single year.
By John Dodge4 months ago in Geeks
Rachel Reviews: What Was Forbidden by Jonathan Bockian
I, personally, love an historical murder mystery. My requirements are that it must evoke the place and the period firstly but that the action and the characters must also be believable. Jon Bockian's book delivers this to a high degree and he has created a novel which is tense, informative, creates investment in the characters and brings alive 17th century Venice - all good.
By Rachel Deeming4 months ago in BookClub
Tribulation Bay Chapter ONE
It was Rachael Collinsβ 21st birthday and she stood inside her bedroom staring at the image in the mirror and compared herself to a picture that was. A few years ago, she was somewhat hard to look at with a pimply face, braces on her teeth and a rather boyish haircut that she instantly regretted.
By Timothy E Jones4 months ago in Chapters
