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On the second floor of a beige stucco dingbat apartment complex in my Dad’s neighborhood there’s a window with blue curtains. I'm often visiting my Dad,

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There’s about seven inches of grated parmesan piled onto a side plate. The waiter said Say when, and the guy never said when. Just watched the waiter shave more and more of the block until finally the...

This was a town that got really excited about a Bigfoot sighting the winter before, but whose residents were crestfallen to learn that it was only a mound of old wigs someone had dumped out there, in ...

This was a town that got really excited about a Bigfoot sighting the winter before, but whose residents were crestfallen to learn that it was only a mound of old wigs someone had dumped out there, in ...

Big Man, star of Big Man, Bigger Man, Big Man: Biggest, and Still Big, Still Man, sadly passed away last night in a dog-sledding-related incident. Though his death is tragic, loved ones say they are c...

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I’d slept for only four hours that day. When I was looking at his face, I saw another face. It was as if an artist had drawn it smoothly into the natural lines, the fine hair, wrinkles, flecks of pigm...

I’d slept for only four hours that day. When I was looking at his face, I saw another face. It was as if an artist had drawn it smoothly into the natural lines, the fine hair, wrinkles, flecks of pigm...

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Dennis was sitting in the office room. He was reading an AI-generated article about tech companies that were hiring. He clicked on one of the company websites at random. He opened the application port...

There are bugs in the watermelon. They’re supposed to be bugless but they always have the little white maggot bugs and sometimes, like today, they have the black scarab weevil bugs even though they’re...

July 9, 2025 Today I started a wonderful new project! Im making a board game! The board is made of dirt. The dirt is 300 yards by 300 yards and is outside. there is one piece (so far) and it is a litt...

Logistics tracks, in reverse chronological order, the journey of a pedometer from a shop in Sweden to a factory in China.

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