Above the cloud layer, rising impossibly high into the atmosphere, growing and expanding as we watched, was a horror that I’d only ever seen in grainy online videos. A massive mushroom...
In the wilderness at night, needing to pee and actually doing it were two different things. She stared out into the void, trying not to imagine a hundred horrible things ending her life in a million monstrous...
Bob was old enough and had been screwed over enough to have honed a hard-earned bullshit detector. He could spot BS like the Hubble telescope saw infinitely distant stars. Once you knew what to look for, bullshit glowed like a glittering...
Bob recognized him from a TV show on investing. Crazy Cash with Jim Crammer, or something. It was was more about melodramatic rants and red-faced shouting than it was about any meaningful investment...
He dropped to his knees and peered between the slender bars of the trap. Two shiny black eyes regarded him. Like tiny, polished marbles, they stared in silence. It wasn’t a bird. It was far cuter. But was it too cute to...
Nature simply was. Both beautiful and brutal. The comforts and amenities of the modern world dulled that reality. But being out here alone in the vast wilderness brought the intrinsic character back into sharp...
