Luke O'Neil

It’s humiliating enough just being ambiently enslaved by these guys

Under Kentucky law the gun used in the mass shooting at a bank in Louisville on Monday will be auctioned off. "The assault rifle that was used to murder five of our neighbors and shoot at rescuing police officers will one day be auctioned off," mayor Craig Greenberg

I finally erased it because I felt it was time

They're boxes we carry around that store our conversations with ghosts

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I told him that’s why everyone does everything

Every day a last-minute reprieve from the governor

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You can do whatever you want if you have the votes

Today Eli Motycka writes from Tennessee on the situation leading up to the expulsion of two lawmakers following protests about gun violence. Previously he wrote for Hell World about how Republicans in the state seem more concerned with passing symbolic bills to own the libs than actually legislating. A massive

Indicting the entire expanse of the world

The goddamned birds had come back.

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How is this still happening?

A conceivable tragedy

This story appears in my book A Creature Wanting Form available here. We had to wrangle the kids and have them sit down in the cafeteria while the guy with the big purple head folded his meaty forearms back and forth across his tactical beer gut and talked about how

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Something obvious that everyone else has access to

We agonized over the decision to kill my father

M. is on a Mazzy Star kick I guess and keeps showing me pictures of Hope Sandoval from the 90s and I have to act like I haven't seen every single picture of Hope Sandoval from the 90s. Today we're going to talk a lot about

The movement to Stop Cop City isn’t going anywhere

Back in January Rachel Garbus reported for Hell World on the movement against the construction of Cop City in Atlanta and the aftermath of the police killing one of the protesters. Today Micah Herskind catches us up on what's transpired over the past few weeks, including the release

All I got was this inertia

I just heard Marc Maron say in an interview that he actually enjoys going to the post office and now I don't know if I can trust anyone ever again. Everything we've been told is a lie. Not just about making our postage needs more convenient

The real truth about it is we're all supposed to try

Thank you for being a paid supporter. I only ever had a little baby gambling issue years ago so it’s great to be reminded every five minutes in Massachusetts that I could fire that whole thing back up now if I wanted to. If I dared to. Had the

It’s one of the best things that's ever happened to me

I posted a new excerpt from my book A Creature Wanting Form today. Paying subscribers can read it here: Playing deadWelcome to Hell WorldLuke O’Neil Buy a full-priced yearly subscription to Hell World today and I'll send you a free copy of one of my books as

Playing dead

This story appears in my new book A Creature Wanting Form. A childhood friend had died and we were sharing photos in the group chat going remember this and remember this like you do when someone dies and here was one of us at Boy Scout camp a certain number

I’m not saying you shouldn’t try to help (free preview)

Today's thing is a sequel of sorts to one of the stories in A Creature Wanting Form which should be arriving pretty soon if you ordered it! You'll have to be a paid subscriber to read this piece below in full which you can find here.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t try to help

Today's thing is a sequel of sorts to one of the stories in A Creature Wanting Form which should be arriving pretty soon if you ordered it! 25 % OFF SUBSCRIBE NOW I was looking at my phone on the couch when D. looked up from her phone on

When you’re famous you don’t belong to yourself

Today's Hell World is lighter and a bit more fun than we usually have around here and I'm sorry about that. It begins with a very strange thing that happened to me the other day. I sat down in the morning and opened up a book

That's what makes a wax museum timeless

This piece was originally published in Esquire. For the first time in history Tom Brady looks like garbage. If it weren't for the number 12 jersey on his back or the football clasped awkwardly in his tiny hands, you wouldn't know it was him. Granted, it&

I'm worried they might finally get the answer they're really looking for

A Creature Wanting Form my new book of short stories and poems is available now. Earlier this week I added my name to a letter addressed to the New York Times' management that was signed by roughly 1,000 current and former contributors to the paper and around 23,

Racism and xenophobia won't fix the Canadian housing crisis

(This piece was sent out to paid subscribers last week but I'm taking it out from behind the paywall today. Subscribe if you can to support our work here.) SUBSCRIBE NOW by Matthew McCreadie The day that the Canadian Federal Budget was announced last April, a man was

Bachelor parties suck so bad

Bachelor parties tend to suck so fucking bad, dude. Especially the stereotypical "weekend in Vegas with the boys" variety, which are already a nightmare of hyper-consumption, and, yes, performance of masculinity. Except all the ones I've been on which were nice and normal. In their new

I know some really greasy dentists

If you never read this Hell World in which a couple dozen people shared their dental nightmares it's a rough one. I was rigid in the chair crying from both fear and shameIt was so bad I would sit on a cold winter basement floor in pain swigging

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Throwing water on a grease fire

They don’t see us as equals

Today a dispatch from one of the ongoing protests in Peru that have arisen after the attempted self-coup and subsequent removal from power of president Pedro Castillo in December. At least sixty people have been killed and hundreds of others have been injured largely by police violence. Help pay for

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They had to go to something that was more effective