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Anti-Life Equation: Free Speech in the Age of Hate
The Culture Wars have returned, and freedom of speech is the latest battleground. It seems like nearly every week one college campus or another explodes into protests or rio
Misery Tourism, Literally: The Wilson Street Memorial
The following is the first in a potential series of articles profiling depressing places and miserable locales. If you know of a particularly dispiriting hellhole or pit of despair
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Numbers.
LIFE is all numbers/figures to you, the Domicile’s three ONE PERCENTERS.
Life oppresses you with endless suggestions (therapy, “eye contact,” “take Haloperidol”).
Jack the Ripper/Lighthearted Friend
The following games were created for the 2017 200 Word RPG Challenge. Both games were inspired by the Wikipedia page for Richard Wallace’s Jack the Ripper: “Light-hearted Friend,”
Kitty Genovese in Heaven
The Passion
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The Man Who Was Legion Testifies
I used to live over there, beyond those hills, in the catacombs, and sleep on the soft earth of fresh graves. I used to throw myself on t
Fatimah’s Busy Day
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The youngest player is Fatimah.
Others play her anthropomorphic burqa, Amir.
Fatimah is running errands before going on a trip.
Using the prompt
Case #410113
(Editor’s note: Found below is some superhero (?)-themed flash fiction. It uses a google form to generate a story, which is found at the bottom of the post. The most dominan
Misery Movies: Episode 8 – M
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In episode eight of Misery Movies, the Misery Tourism crew discuss Fritz Lang’s 1931 classic serial killer film M.
As always, the first half of the podcast is spoiler-free and i
5 Places I See Every Day (Where I Would Love to Hang Myself)
Listen, I get it. Life’s a drag. It’s a slog. Every day is a slow march through through a filthy, sweltering swamp with a 30 pound rucksack on your back and very little hope that C