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Shyness Is Nice

A tired looking woman in a corporate office stands next to a text box that reads "Gotta Interview Someone Shy?"

I’ve been learning a new tool that lets one build interactive scenarios for work… and I take work very seriously.

WITCHES TOWN: Now available

For the low, low price of Pay-What-You-Want, it’s my latest microfiction collection WITCHES TOWN!

Weird locales! Bogs and caves! Monsters and ghosts! Jokes! A PDF/epub/mobi .zip file like the pros use!

If your heart can stand it, you can download/purchase it here:
https://gum.co/witchestown

An entire microfiction from the book for our delight and amazement:

FLOWER GOLEMS ARE A TERRIBLE IDEA

We thought it’d be simple: a little blood, some petals, a bit of chanting and you’ve got a garden that can move and talk.

Instead: Visibility is terrible as the pollen fog collects in drifts. I am so covered in pollen I look like a bee’s hind legs. Children, as they sleep, produce mucus in such astounding quantities that they need to be chipped free from their beds in the morning.

And still the golems won’t stop making out.

expanding the cinematic universe

Text on the flip side of this postcard:

The Air Bud expanded cinematic universe had a misstep when AIR BUD: MY BULLETS ARE JUSTICE featured a police dept. embarrassed to discover that there’s no law against a dog being a loose cannon cop with a dead or alive attitude.

♫ in the meadow we can build a snowman / animate it in d’fiance of God / they’ll say ‘you have made abomination’ / and once again we’re fleeing from a mob ♫

[relatable content for good children late edition sep 29]

a wastrel child of no consequence: Hooray! It’s Halloween season! I want to parade about as a ghost and eat sweets!

you (a good child): A season? Nay. At every moment be aware of the skeleton within you, the aeons that came before you and the aeons that will come after you. The years that will crush even the memory of you. No candy can sweeten this knowledge, put it is pure and true.

relaxrelaxrelaxrelax

Believe me, I’d like to relax, Rental Cabin, but with how often you’re telling me to relax, I gotta wonder: are you trying to get me to let my guard down? Are you not /actually/ a cabin but some sort of house-shaped Venus Flytrap thing? Are you planning to EAT me, Rental Cabin?

SsingSsing: NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Funky Korean shamanic music

webloggery: an increasingly improbably universe and you

“Quantum immortality is one of the scariest ideas imaginable,” says Oxford’s Sandberg. The topic has even become something of a taboo among physicists who think its widespread dissemination might encourage an amateur physicist with the courage of their convictions to try their hand at Russian roulette.

“The guy trying out [Russian roulette] will, from the perspective of most observers, just be dead,” says Sandberg. “Of course, there are a few, very rare observers that see him being very, very lucky. But as he keeps on doing this that set is getting smaller and smaller. But it always includes a version of himself.”

Why Earth’s History Appears So Miraculous – Peter Brannan (The Atlantic)