Welcome to Hell World

There’s a hole in the earth

This story appears in my collection A Creature Wanting Form. (E-book 50% off at OR Books through January with code: NEWSITE50) We were sitting in the sulfurous hot spring rubbing the mud they have there on our faces and going like look at me I’m a mud man I’

The story is old

Hello and thank you for reading. Here's your allotment of things to be pissed off about today. Subscribe if you can please buddy. Ok! In 2015 a sheriff’s deputy in San Francisco named Scott Neu was fired from his job at the county jail. Neu had been

Inside the structure

The observed system reacts

Withdrawal

Not even once

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The people command and the government obeys

In the world we want, everyone fits. In the world we want, many worlds fit

Almost no one makes it out

The best of Jason Molina

It will be withheld

You have to have your guard down

A stick figure throwaway gag

The end of the world is in fact coming

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Traffic that you're not even sitting in

Almost was good enough

Everywhere is the same place when you're drinking

I remember the first time I was ever scared in my life

One day we crawl into the box too

Many grow out of it and become serious people

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Still I feel I'm sinking

Either too much of it or too little

Nature Points Out the Folly of Man

by Sean T. Collins “Of all my childhood obsessions, I think about Godzilla the least. Which makes me sad, because I loved him so much you guys. I still have a fondness for giant monsters, and for things that come out of the sea, and for MAYHEM, but Godzilla’s

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They view themselves as the rubble the war left behind

Godzilla!

I will always love you

The top 5 The Cure songs ever

The 2023 year in review

We made it!

The 15 best songs of 2023

Music!

You have more options than they will ever tell you you have

Today we're going to have a discussion about living with a chronic illness and the need to advocate for yourself in the face of indifference to your pain or refusal of treatment from doctors or your insurance company. After two long years of inconclusive tests, and ten years

Searching the Sunny Florida Keys for Netflix's Darkest Show

This piece was originally published in Esquire in 2016. When you raise kids here, it's all about the water," our captain said. We'd just launched from the marina at The Stoned Crab in Key West, and Tony Osborn, the co-owner of the restaurant and the

Most people do not attend hourly to the sins of the world

Who eats the sin-eater's sins?

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These guys hate the things that they own

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Is this an existential crisis for democracy or not?

An unholy alliance

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! I had a very nice time myself visiting my family and staying with my in-laws and getting together with old high school friends. Then after that like all good cosmopolitan liberals everywhere I sat down to read this delightful new essay by celebrated

No living witness

Scrubbing dishes in the soup splattered sink. To be able to tell myself later that I had given it an honest try. You can lie to yourself about anything you want if there’s no one following up.  Jumbling and jostling around and splashing like a child with a house

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What do you owe them?

Everyone who has ever lived and died