Have you noticed that NewPLUG engagement has been dropping over the years? It’s only a slight downward slope. Almost imperceptible. It’s not that Redditors have been engaging any less frequently with the subreddit. It’s simply that there are fewer members alive. And I just found out why. The moderators have been eating them. I don’t know how many of…
Yes, I know, who in their right mind uses TikTok? I was always starkly opposed to Social Media, especially TikTok. That cesspit of stupidity and regurgitated jokes should’ve never become a thing, and not one as huge as it is today. I wish I’d never downloaded the damn thing. I really wish. Or maybe… maybe…
There was a new girl at the group home. I didn’t see her, but I could hear her talking to Denny outside my room. She sounded annoying, like everyone else who lived here. There were four of us, five now I guess. We were all in our early twenties and got kicked out once we…
My husband, Lawrence, is a food critic for a respected publication. It’s ironic that he would end up with someone like me; I’m a terrible cook. I could butcher cheese on toast! But fortunately that wasn’t a deal breaker for him. We’ve been happily married for almost 20 years. Lawrence came home from reviewing a…
When my sister, Amy, was in 9th grade, her favorite math teacher, Mr. Marris, leapt from the top story of the humanities building and exploded on the pavement. He did it right as the lunch bell rang when the main quad was at its busiest. Later, everyone would have a story: a description of the…
My mother always made me play hide and seek with her. It was just her and me, and we played at nine. Each time, without failure, she told me to ignore her during the game. She told me that she would purposefully try to trick me, but, you know, if you really wanted to trick…
I always saw Marilyn walking three huge dogs in the park. She was a little 5’1 woman walking these giant bernese mountain dogs and handling it with ease. I was in love even though I didn’t know a single thing about her. I worked up the courage to talk to her. She was nice but…
I know that this sounds like the kind of advice to anyone left alone in the house at night but this is different. It started a week ago, I was in bed it had just turned 01:00, I was scrolling on my phone while my wife Steph was asleep. I suddenly had a notification pop…
Any woman who has ever spurned a man’s advances already knows my story. Rejecting someone you have known and loved is, I think, even more perilous than rejecting a stranger. Edward and I dated for six months. He was an exceptional man in so many ways, but he soon revealed his contemptible side, and that…
Hannah Ross died on June 9th, 1982. It was a rainy Wednesday afternoon and I can’t imagine that anybody really cared. I mean, she didn’t have any family and considering the number of other people who’d also died at the same time, in the same place, she wasn’t really unique. Just another victim of some…