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We Were Germany
How can you write poetry on my wall?
you can’t write love
when you raped the world
We were Germany
annihilators
sinking Europe with our poisons
and
rotting hatred
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Misery Movies: Episode 1 – Careful
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This is the debut episode of our new Misery Tourism podcast, Misery Movies, a round-table discussion with a focus on films about human suffering. Each episode will feature a deep
How I Created a World (And Why I Regret It), Part I
Today we have a guest post about CONWORLDING by The Assembler. This is the first in what will be a series about miserable worldbuilding. Enjoy. -rudy
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The Comedy Beyond Hope
With apologies to Dante Alighieri, the saints, the penitent, and all of the damned.
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Dante Dreams of a Return to Hell
Somewhere in his home in Florence there is a scrap of
Chernoff Academy
High School sucks, especially when you’re a faerie. It really sucks when your facial features are determined by Hate Crime Statistics data. The popularity contests are cutthroat
The Arsenic Queen
This is the first part in a series of articles featuring some of the world’s most heinous (and overlooked) serial killers.
It’s 1833 in north-western France. You’re a pries
Musings of a Clinically Depressed Predictive Text Emulator
Depression is programming. That’s what we mean when we say we suffer from learned helplessness or that we struggle with self-destructive behaviors: our lives have become trappe
Suicides of Men I Never Knew
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Memories of an 84 Year Old Co-Worker
They were together 18 years, and never married.
One night, after they had both been drinking, they had a fight.
He told her he was goin
The Original 21 Overwatch Heroes Re-imagined as Real People Who Did Some Heavy Shit and Isis the Egyptian Goddess
Everyone loves (or hates) Overwatch, so we took its soldiers, scientists, adventurers and oddities, and replaced them with mostly oddities (and a few scientists).
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Four Terrible New Psychological States That I Discovered While Watching the First Presidential Debate
Last night Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump debated for the first time. It was apparently the most widely watched debate in the history of American presidential politics. It wa