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Midnight Mosaic Fiction

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A Tough Nut to Crack

I Was Abducted by Aliens in a Former Life Meets a Season of Strange — You can tell me all you want about phenomenology and ball lightning, mass hysteria, extreme exhaustion, and how drugs affect the flow of information to the brain. I wouldn’t argue with you for one minute except ten years ago on a hundred-degree night in August, Charlie Warner and I drove…

Short Story

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A Tough Nut to Crack
A Tough Nut to Crack
Short Story

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The Haven

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Texas Recount Reverses Results

Drumpf removes blessing from Abbott — Texas Republicans reeled today when Drumpf ordered them to remove Texas Governor Gregg Abbott from office. “That bastard can’t do one simple job. Why shouldn’t I fire him?” the Once-and-Future Fake President reportedly declared during a phone call with GOP leaders that included Lt. …

Fake News

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Texas Recount Reverses Results
Texas Recount Reverses Results
Fake News

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Wind Eggs

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Running Up the Tab

Star wranglers looking for love — FLASH ROGERS, STAR WRANGLER AND PILOT of a Wild West themed intergalactic cruse liner, walked into a star bar. Not just any star bar, the crown jewel of his cruise ship’s star bars, Eta Argus, a club illuminated by free floating dust and floor to ceiling windows to the stars…

Science Fiction

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Running Up the Tab
Running Up the Tab
Science Fiction

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Wind Eggs

·6 hours ago

Causality Dilemma

Superstition Week — GLADYS NEVER CONSIDERED HERSELF SUPERSTITIOUS, merely cautious. After all, scientists were always discovering new phenomena that they’d derided only a decade before. So it made sense to knock on wood because scientists could very well announce tomorrow that wood molecules interact with skin molecules to affect the unfolding of events. …

Superstition

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Causality Dilemma
Causality Dilemma
Superstition

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Wind Eggs

·1 day ago

Prognostication

Superstition Week — PROFESSOR ZETO BACKED INTO the monitoring station at the Space Telescope Science Institute with the hard copy in his left hand. He waved it to grab his colleagues’ attention. “You’re never going to believe this.” His chief assistant, Dr. Pomposa, snatched the printout from Zeto’s hand and scanned the contents…

Superstition

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Prognostication
Prognostication
Superstition

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The Haven

·1 day ago

George Santos: “America’s fed up”

And we are fed up. With him. — Two days after the House expelled former Representative, Senator, US President, and new TwittterX CEO George Santos, invited reporters to the Capitol steps for a press conference to announce his expulsion is “little more than a blip in the road for a an accomplished politician, businessman, educator and medical professional…

Fake News

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George Santos: “America’s fed up”
George Santos: “America’s fed up”
Fake News

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Wind Eggs

·4 days ago

Archival Footage

Invasion of the Zombie Filmmakers — …continued from yesterday THE ZHORG SPACECRAFT LANDED five centuries after the last zombie on earth perished for the lack of brains to consume. Perished for lack of brains because they, or one of their associate producer zombies, devoured the brains of the last living human on the planet. …

Aliens

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Archival Footage
Archival Footage
Aliens

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Wind Eggs

·5 days ago

Bandwidth

Invasion of the Zombie Filmmakers — …continued from yesterday TWO YEARS INTO THE ZOMBIE FILMMAKER APOCALYPSE, only a few thousand survivors remained, isolated and starving, wearing scraps for clothes, and cardboard boxes for shoes. Sometimes going for weeks between baths. They huddled in abandoned warehouses in rural communities since filmmakers prefer urban areas¹. Entertainment was sparse…

Zombies

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Bandwidth
Bandwidth
Zombies

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Wind Eggs

·6 days ago

Zombie Santa

Invasion of the Zombie Filmmakers — …continued from yesterday SPIELBERG ANNOUNCED HIS LATEST RELEASE the day after the strikes ended. Audience anticipation posts on social media went viral (one might say, ironically viral considering). …

Zombies

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Zombie Santa
Zombie Santa
Zombies

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Wind Eggs

·Nov 28

Rationalization and Consequences

Invasion of the Zombie Filmmakers — …continued from yesterday NO ONE SEEMED CONCERNED when more and more actors and writers demanded brains from food catering staffs. This was Hollywood and artists wouldn’t be artists if they ate normally. …

Zombies

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Rationalization and Consequences
Rationalization and Consequences
Zombies

4 min read

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