All those hours had to add up. Where did they all go? He used to think they would pile up somewhere and he would get them back. He wasn't banking on that anymore.

He spent a lot of extra time prepping for work. Not just the two hours on the road....

George didn't like this whole obsession with  third places that everybody was talking about. To him he didn't need a third place. He woke up at home, went to work, and when that was done he wanted to come back home. He wondered why anybody wouldn't want to be home....

The  Blue Man was an influencer he had followed a long time ago. In fact everybody he knew had followed him. He was more popular than movie stars like  Brad Pitt . More popular than musicians than  Drake . There was a time when the entire western world seemed hinged...

He wrote daily on this website. But he also wrote into his notebooks. Pen on paper had a better chance at lasting longer than bits in a database. Theoretically bits could be preserved from one physical instance, say a database in Detroit to another database maybe in Tokyo, but it...

George Baker was an old fashioned man. He went to a state university and graduated in four years with a 3.6 GPA. Never during those four years did he dream of being at artist like so many kids at Snyder Hall. Likewise he never thought of becoming a big shot...

George Baker had come to town just east of Westcity for a business trip. However this place was starting to grow on him. He had never had this experience before during a work trip. They mostly sent him to the middle of the nowhere, sticking him in a hotel off...

George Baker noticed the ding only after the door had closed behind him. That was an anomoly, he thought. Most of these store door bells dinged upon opening. He turned back to look up at the bell that was stuck onto the side of the door rather than hanging from...

Howard felt okay being a broke college student the moment she said that. Yes. This girl that he found beautiful and smart and brave was also a broke college student and this made it so he no longer felt bad for being one. He hadn't even recognized until then that...

He had been dreaming about a parrot. Strangely it was a parrot who was running for mayor. And even stranger he was an old man, married to Ashleigh, who was friends with the owner of this parrot. The two of them lived in a small town somewhere in the midwest....

That Parrot was now running for mayor. The owner had put the parrot on the ballot as a joke but people took a liking to it. So he thought why the hell not? He was sure that his parrot couldn't win the election so spun up an Instagram account to...