Weird

My father named me Laika because when I was born, my grandfather told him to treat me like a bad dog. To Father, Laika was synonymous with dog. He used the name to remind me…

The bell above the OPEN sign dinged against the glass as I walked through the door of the old convenience store. It sounded faint and somehow distant, and I suspected the little clapper inside had…

We’d finished a modest pasta dinner with salad and I was looking forward to catching up on some shows I’d been watching. I scrubbed the dishes then loaded the dishwasher, drying my hands with a…

Technology can be a rich soil for a disturbing story. Such is the case for “I Ordered My Wife Off of Craigslist”, written by author Tensing99 on Reddit. This disturbing short tale has been narrated…

We’d been doing civics for the past month. I was teaching second grade at Witherspoon Elementary, struggling to teach the meaning of Gettysburg and the Battle of Princeton to a bunch of eight year-olds, especially…

I think this might be the end. For us anyway. Man and all that we’ve accomplished. I’ve had plenty time to think about it since the last time I saw the sun. The last time…

Log One I awaken. I don’t know it at the moment, but this day marks my fourth straight year of existing in the dogscape. I push myself up from the carpet of writhing, twitching dogflesh…