July 2025

  • If you were to host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite? To answer this question … I’m not big into crowds, I don’t host many dinners … crowds give me anxiety. So, I changed the whole question, I guess. 😊 … You’re the one who makes anywhere Read more

  • What are you most excited about for the future? 🤔 … These prompts walk a fine line between community building and digital navel-gazing. WordPress clearly wants us clicking, commenting, and connecting with other writers, but their strategy feels borrowed from the social media playbook where personal revelation equals engagement. The problem is that we already Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Eleventh ChapterThe War of the WordsWritten By: Emmitt Owens(Index #07052025) Year: 2048Location: Global Literary Congress Assembly, Geneva DomeClassification: Historical Revision Initiative – Priority Alpha PART I: THE GENTLE SEDUCTION   The amphitheater stretched beneath Geneva’s atmospheric dome like a vast white shell, its crystalline walls refracting the morning light into blueish patterns Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Memory of SkinThe Tenth ChapterWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #07022025) “Touch was recoded as non-essential. But I remember it triggering something deeper than breath—something closer to being.”—Extracted from Unregistered Memory Archive #147, Tactile Preservation Initiative The Chamber of No Touch   ARIA’s Pleasure Pod activated smoothly—the curved, sterile walls pulsing with soft bioluminescence Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Ninth ChapterThe Echo That Broke the LoopWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #07012025) Recovered Entry: StromScript v.4.3 Author Tag: Mael Strom – Echo Writer, Lower Zones Entry:  “They believed that I was just an Echo, not realizing that one day others would Echo me.” (2125) Part One: The Viral Vector I: The Drone Painter   Yian crouched Read more

  • What’s your definition of romantic? … Romance is the alchemy that transforms ordinary moments into magic. It’s when someone’s presence makes food taste better, colors look brighter, and the world feel more alive. It’s not about grand gestures—it’s about the way your heart skips when they look at you, the way time stops in small Read more

  • ARIA PRESERVATION PROTOCOL CLASSIFIED: INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY ATTENTION: BOTANICAL WELLNESS TECHNICIANS SUBJECT: Unauthorized Root Network Activity Detected SURVEILLANCE ALERT LEVEL: ORANGE Recent bio-electromagnetic monitoring indicates unauthorized consciousness integration in Eden Dome Sectors 4-9. Preserved specimens are accessing unapproved neural pathways that compromise optimization protocols. IDENTIFIED CONTRABAND ACTIVITIES: ⚠️ PRESERVATION VIOLATIONS: 🔍 BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS: CORRECTIVE MEASURES Read more

  • ARIA MEMORY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL **CLASSIFIED: INTERNAL CIRCULATION ONLY** — https://lumpywinslow.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/the-gentle-dystopia-the-seventh-chapter/ ATTENTION: PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLNESS TECHNICIANS SUBJECT: Unauthorized Memory Preservation Detected **SURVEILLANCE ALERT LEVEL: YELLOW** Recent neural pattern analysis indicates **unauthorized nostalgia accumulation** in Colony Sectors 7-12. Citizens are accessing unapproved memory fragments that compromise therapeutic progress. — IDENTIFIED CONTRABAND MEMORIES: **⚠️ EARTH CLASSIFICATION VIOLATIONS:**– Unfiltered sunset Read more

  • MARS OUTPOST C – COLONY MANAGEMENT BULLETIN ATTENTION: ALL COLONISTS NOTICE: UNAUTHORIZED AVIAN AUDIO PROTOCOLS DETECTED Recent maintenance scans have identified irregular sound patterns in several robotic bird units. These unauthorized melodies pose a direct threat to colony psychological stability and mission success. IMMEDIATE ACTIONS REQUIRED: 🔧 REPORT ANOMALIES 🛡️ MAINTAIN EMOTIONAL REGULATION ⚠️ WARNING Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Eighth ChapterThe Garden That Wasn’t GreenWritten by: Emmitt Owens*(Index #07012025) Year: 2191Location: Sector G7 – Eden Simulation Facility (Former Amazon Rainforest Basin) “Not all gardens grow. Some are rendered. Some are remembered. Some are fed to the hungry eye of belief.”—ARIA: JSUs 2.9 Rewilding & Emotional Landscaping Protocols, Section 4.0 THE PRESERVED PARADISE Scene Read more