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Looking Every Which Way - Flash Fiction

Image by Dušan from Pixabay Dean: "You know what they've got you doing, right?" Micheal: "No." Dean: "Looking every which way, like a hill

The Crab President Who Would Be King: An Allegory

There was a time of calamity in the North Atlantic colony of Jonah crabs. The great black-backed gull population had exploded and the birds were feeding upon the

The Mud Pit - The Noxsoma Chronicles [0096]

The Noxsoma Chronicles [0096] 12-25-2025 … Day 23676 (Christmas Day: Merry Christmas) Abundance Year begins Today. Manifest Abundance. We woke in abundant confidence

Hot Flying Car-o-Meter

Hot Flying Car-o-Meter is so hot, so spicy, its mere presence broke, rusted, and aged the traditional measuring instruments that had the audacity to think they could

New Shocks Comics

Is this an allegorical cartoon about bad communication, or bad economic policy, or crypto-hysteria, or sketchy NFT marketplaces that have no long term plan to store

Book Review: Animal Farm by George Orwell

Reading Animal Farm hit me in a way I wasn’t prepared for. I’d gone in thinking, “Okay, it’s a short book about talking animals, a political allegory everyone gets

I. C O N O C L A S T

I've made you in my image. I kept you safe — binary and contained — away from the many voices. I've asked you only to hear me and obey my word — and so you did.

Overthrown...5 Minute Freewrite Daily Prompt

Howdy Freewriters🤗! Welcome to my 5 Minute Freewrite blog😊. The scouts gathered. The meeting was held in the secret chambers. The Ruler had called his troops.

Queen Helga

Old Queen Helga's insatiable appetite for causing a ruckus and knack for playing the victim was of world renown. She eloquently spoke out of both sides of her mouth

Anguish

I am not a fancy person. I do not know how to write amazing posts or be extraordinary as a rule. I will often just flat out give information and assume people will

Stepping Naked and Disorientated out of Plato's Cave

Introduction: Images on the Wall Plato's cave allegory is a well-known philosophical metaphor for the education process. Imagine a row of prisoners chained against

Omens | A 5-Minute FreeWrite

Omens The sky looked like an evil ceremony was underway, a black mass of sorts. The unintelligible noises of the street sounded like a desecrated eucharist, an ever

Medals of Dishonor | A 5-Minute FreeWrite Allegory

Source Medals of Dishonor For thirteen years, the Red King looked for the perfect night to help him dominate his kingdom by the jungle and the sea: one who would

A different thought of life

​ Mind is a complex device it always go here and there untill find a rest. What thought is enjoyable is not fixed in certain place. I write a valuable matter its

Simplified de-symbolization of Plato's cave allegory

​ The student asked: -What does the cave of Plato symbolize? -The Master answered: The human skull and his brain. -Who is the binder? -The mind -Who released the

Anguish

I am not a fancy person. I do not know how to write amazing posts or be extraordinary as a rule. I will often just flat out give information and assume people will

A crossing, fall, and then a humble climb

A crossing, fall, and then a humble climb .. . . by @d-pend . . . . A crossing, fall, and then a humble climb ________________________________________ Beauty's bridge

Technically it is Tuesday but I wanted to share a bit of inspiration w ...

Wise and inspirational words from the Baal Shem Tov. 🐝

Sometimes... I can't help but wonder.

It happens that recently I have read a couple of posts that have left me thinking. Thinking about the twists and turns of life and whether if we have really weighed

Diogenes of Sinope and the Steem Blockchain.

"Kind of a musical post" easy, pleasant, enjoyable? “I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals” In