Episodi

  • I Tried Getting the Black Lives Matter Sign Removed at My Apartment Building

    I Tried Getting the Black Lives Matter Sign Removed at My Apartment Building
    Nov 2 2023
    I made believe I was an investigative journalist to uncover why I feel the Black Lives Matter symbol has come to mean something other than what it used to represent. What I discovered led me to want the Black Lives Matter sign removed at my apartment building.
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    19 min
  • The Time I Told Myself I Saved a Life in My Job as Basically a Guy Who Sends Emails

    The Time I Told Myself I Saved a Life in My Job as Basically a Guy Who Sends Emails
    May 10 2023
    Covid-19 had begun spreading in the U.S. Leaders of organizations were scurrying to get their computer-based staff able to telework indefinitely. This is about one of those thrilling times in a desk job when I did something that may have really mattered.
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    11 min
  • Geezers in the Age of the Youth Pandemic

    Geezers in the Age of the Youth Pandemic
    Oct 30 2022
    In March 2020, many public places around the U.S. closed to protect vulnerable people from catching Covid-19. Despite the pandemic, less vulnerable young adults cavorted around. They seemed either not to accept or care about their new labels as selfish, cold-hearted, and harbingers of death. However...what if the tables were turned on who the vulnerable really were? In this fictional story about the new Twenties/Thirties Respiratory Syndrome pandemic, the geezers can't stop cavorting around town and acting as harbingers of death for the youth.
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    12 min
  • Telemarketer-Style Headphones Twinsies: A Love Note to My Girlfriend

    Telemarketer-Style Headphones Twinsies: A Love Note to My Girlfriend
    Oct 28 2021
    I wrote this story and performed it for my girlfriend on "Valenday," which is one of many shortened words in Anie's lexicon I've adored and adopted, and they've now became a new language for us. Before Anie, I’d basically never had a girlfriend before. I’d always attributed that to me being unwanted because of my past diseases and their resulting effects. Who would want me? Nobody, and I accepted that and that was ok. And then Anie arrived, as did "din" consisting of steak and "brocc" and many other new words.
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    9 min