"Buy Bitcoin Here!"

The gas station beckoned you to buy bitcoin at a kiosk inside. A decade ago Max had purchased a nontrivial amount. A friend had gotten him to buy this obscure entity at what seems today an absurdly low price. At the time he was confused by it all....

A drive at night with someone you spent a lot of time with. It would reveal a lot you might not know about the other person. Driving together at night does something to make it easier to talk. About things you wouldn't discuss in the daylight.

"I had a family."

"I figured."

"I...

Receipts. Receipts. Receipts.

They left a paper trail. Detectives could find them. Trace it back to him. Once they had a visual on him, they could piece him back to The Blue Man.

This is the thought loop in Marc Love's head. It must've repeated a thousand times before lunch. He thought...

People who loved driving gas burning cars enjoyed shitting on EVs. You could only drive them a few hours and then you'd be stuck charging it. Road trips. You couldn't take them conveniently. But Max wondered, how many road trips did people even take?

He imagined having an electric car. Charging...

He woke. The dream was over. Of course. There were no trains where he lived. Everybody drove. If you couldn't afford or were unable to drive a car then you were stuck. Few years ago he could hear the car from his old bed room. The house his parents lived...

Manufacturers put scents into dish soap because research revealed that it made the washer think their dishes were getting cleaner than when using unscented soap. Technically the scents weren't required for the cleaning. Max knew this. But he still enjoyed scrubbing it into the plates. He also enjoyed wiping them...

Max prided himself from buying the one hitter from an indie smoke shop instead of a chain. It wasn't local to where he lived, but a thirty minute drive away. His mom would've been so upset had she known what he was burning all that  gas for. He never told...

The way to make a perfect  risotto . Well there were many ways. You could use wine. You didn't need to. You could begin with butter or olive oil. You could add in vegetables like peas later. But one thing Peter never wavered on was the usage of an enamel ...

Dave wanted tea . The pot had a cup left. He poured it into the mug then added hot water. Tea with hot water added never actually hit like a hot tea. But he'd rather take a watered down hot-ish tea than a cold one. This was not to say...

He counted how long he could live like this. Using the cash. Did the math in his head. 120 years he could last. But with inflation he could probably last until the day he died. Of course he wasn't planning to live in the shadow forever. Eventually the people who...