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TagSuicide of a Clinically Depressed Predictive Text Emulator
A few weeks ago, I transformed Jaime Brew’s predictive text emulator into a depressed, self-loathing wreck by feeding it a collection of posts from my personal tumblr. I then
About to Blow
Beginning of phone transcripts for 1-800-XXX-XXXX on date 11/20/2017
Call #1
(Operator): Hi, this is Marie, how are you doing this morning?
(Caller): Not
6 Ways to Live Like There’s No Tomorrow (And Loathe Every Second of It)
I am putting the finishing touches on this article at 5 pm EST on a Friday afternoon. It’s officially the weekend, and that can only mean one thing: a heightened risk of sudden
The Comedy Beyond Hope
With apologies to Dante Alighieri, the saints, the penitent, and all of the damned.
I
Dante Dreams of a Return to Hell
Somewhere in his home in Florence there is a scrap of
The Arsenic Queen
This is the first part in a series of articles featuring some of the world’s most heinous (and overlooked) serial killers.
It’s 1833 in north-western France. You’re a pries
Musings of a Clinically Depressed Predictive Text Emulator
Depression is programming. That’s what we mean when we say we suffer from learned helplessness or that we struggle with self-destructive behaviors: our lives have become trappe
Suicides of Men I Never Knew
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Memories of an 84 Year Old Co-Worker
They were together 18 years, and never married.
One night, after they had both been drinking, they had a fight.
He told her he was goin
Swollen feet
There’s a body in the basement.
Smells of musk and lizards crawling
over fleshy pale hands that look like
they just lost an apple.
Aspirin-laced wine, just a half a bottl
DANSE MACABRE
Ronnie Award Winner (January 2011)
“Have you seen the ghost of John?
Long white bones and the flesh all gone.
Wouldn’t it be chilly with no skin on?”
– “The Ghost of J