“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sep
22
Turning pages, turning leaves, turning time. I honestly cannot believe another season has begun its transition. The moments I spend with the written word and art between these pages are always some of my most treasured encounters. Reading and curating the innermost workings of our contributors, I always come to the same conclusion: We are […]
Oct
17
(first appeared 10/9/2012 as a spoken word story on www.thetripodcat.com, may it RIP, as read by Brogan Sullivan) Did you know that if you throw a snowball against a wall it will leave a mark that looks identical to your hand? Obviously, the size of the splatter and subsequent handprint will be relative to […]
Oct
16
(originally posted 12/13/2021 with the disclaimer “not a story per se as much as an idle thought”) I watched this show on the connection between time and entropy and it got me to thinking. The basic idea of the show was that on a quantum level, there is no reason that time has […]
Oct
15
(originally posted 6/1/2014) Always on the lookout for the next threat to global stability, I started doing the math on hangers the other day. If the average working person wears five shirts a week that require dry cleaning, they are bringing in five additional hangers into their closets every week. Assuming that their non-dry […]
Oct
14
(Personally I’m a fiscal conservative and socially liberal, i.e. I’m pro choice and support gay marriage (although I think that men competing against women is reprehensible). This upcoming election isn’t about Republican vs. Democrat though. It is about supporters of America as a country and those that want to see it burn. Hyperbole? They want […]
Oct
13
(first appeared at behindcloseddoorslitmag.wordpress.com on 2/15/2013) There are two kinds of itches. Don’t ask me what an itch is, I have no idea, but I do know there are two varieties. There’s the garden-variety itch that you scratch and that’s the end of it and then there’s the bouncing itch. The itch that when […]
