WHEN I FOUND OUT my husband was having an affair, AI wasn’t the first thing I turned to. I confronted him about the panties I found in the front of our car, the extra money ...

Subject: Internal Memo, Project "LULLABY" (Classified Level 5)Source: Leaked from servers of Stellar Streaming, 3 hours before their global shutdown. TO: Content Acquisition & AI Ethics BoardFROM: Dr. Aris Thorne, Algorithmic PsychologyRE: The "Lullaby Loop" ...

The first tooth arrived in the heart of a pear. Years later, whenever Adeline tried to explain everything that had happened, she always found herself returning to that afternoon, though she knew the true beginning ...

I want to say this right away- I know how stupid this is going to sound. But I’m sharing this because I don’t know what else to do. And because I think I made a ...

Farmer Adams was a grumpy shell of man. He treated anyone who trespassed on his property as hostile enemies. He wasn't the violent type to pull out a shotgun or pitchfork. His bark was worse ...

When my mother was alive, she was quite the storyteller. My brothers and I were constantly told stories of her youth, how she met our father, what we were like as babies—but those were never ...

So I’ve been busy going through the archives and you know, doing my job, so I haven’t had a lot of time to type up much. Tall Jim needed to start work shortly after he ...

September 17, 20-- To whoever is reading: Please pardon my recollections and remembrances, as the events that have occurred in the past 24 hours have been the oddest, most appalling, and most confusing that I, ...

My attention is occupied by a nature documentary at low volume. It’s late spring and raining lightly outside. The narrator’s reassuring received pronunciation introduces tonight’s protagonist, a rare species of desert-dwelling toad. Greg once told ...

For around three years, I worked as a freelance school caretaker across the UK. Whenever a school was short-staffed or waiting to hire a permanent caretaker, I’d be sent in to cover the role. Some ...

When I was 8 I thought there Was a Bird trapped in my Garage for a Week. Writing this solidifies something I don’t take lightly. It solidifies that I can never have my face associated ...

The anime world is vast and full of iconic characters. Some are heroic, some are funny, and some of them look so ominous that they stay imprinted in your mind long after the episode ends ...