Splendor In The Grass

By Eric Le Roy

Content 18+ As I was riding in the car with my wife yesterday evening, heading for the Dog Shop and the supermarket, there was some pretty cool rap music on the radio. It was rather strange: slow and soft instead of punching at you like a back alley beatdown, but the usual rhyming patterns were there, and as with the best of that genre, you can … Read the rest

The Ghosts At The Door Of The Church

By Eric Le Roy

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Content 18+ I used to ask myself a question which, though I now know my choice, continues to nibble at me like mice in the basement of my psyche. The question was this: If I had the opportunity to live the life of every human being who ever existed – one by one – would I? I test my memory, twisting road that it … Read the rest

A Day in My Life: The Thoughts of a Devoted Cat

By Fiona, Your Favorite Furry Companion

Content 6+ The world stirs, and so do my humans. I wake when they wake—not because I have to, but because I want to. Why would I waste even a moment apart from them? They are mine, after all. My people. My family.

My humans are waking up. I stretch luxuriously and roll onto my back, exposing my belly—a privilege only the most trusted … Read the rest

Friends Unfriend At The Weather’s Bend

.By Eric Le Roy

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Content 21+ It is more than a little bit interesting how stating one’s political views can ruin a friendship. So wise, the old saying about two things to avoid at a party: religion and politics. Well, religion can be put on the back burner at most punch bowl bashes these days, but politics always seems to find a new life no matter what. Kind … Read the rest

A Bird With Two Songs

By Emily

Content 12+ According to the Christian Bible, an edifice called “The Tower of Babel” was erected by God to make a whole bunch of different languages. The idea apparently held by the suspicious ‘Lord’ was that if everybody spoke the same language, it would make it easier for them to disobey Him and Rebel against his commands. But, He reasoned sagely, if they couldn’t understand each other, then … Read the rest