Short Stories
-
The Bug I Didn’t RemoveA Whimsy-Whirly, Topsy-Turvy, Tale of Delightful NonsenseBy: Emmitt Owens In two-thousand-seventeen, so the story goes,Everyone was keeping score with their…fingers and toes! Of a game nobody wanted, a game with no rules—I said, “I won’t play!” and they thought “he’s a fool”. Ten years before that (or was it eleven?)I found Read more
-
Tuesday feels like everyone’s got a checklistof thingsthat shouldn’t bother thembut doHoward wrote three posts this weekabout baseball caps facing backwardThree separate postsSame capSame complaint.Same energy of a man who says“I just keep scrolling”while absolutely…not keeping scrollingInstead…He stopsHe has to post about itHe has to post about howthe plastic strap bothers himThat little adjustable piecestretched Read more
-
Hawks Nest: The Healing of HawkEpisode 1 (2026)A Therapeutic JourneyWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #12022025-12042025)As narrated by: Waylon Waylon, Intro: “Well now, folks, settle in for a tale about the day Hawk Dawson decided he needed professional help—not for the reasons most folks thought, mind you, but because he’d reached what he called ‘a level of Read more
-
Chill n’Fill: Thankful at Pump #3By: Emmitt OwensEpisode #68(Index #11252025) Thanksgiving at the Chill n’Fill doesn’t come with tablecloths. It comes with salt stains on the floor mats and people swearing under their breath at Pump #3. The bear—twenty feet of winking plastic optimism—stood over the lot in a knit scarf and a beanie Read more
-
Mad Mechanics: Gobble ‘Til You WobbleWritten by: Emmitt OwensAs narrated by: WaylonEpisode: #17(Index# 11252025) Mad Mechanics —Holiday Special Episode: Gobble ’Til You WobbleA Buzzard Roost Thanksgiving Catastrophe Waylon, Intro: “If you’ve never spent Thanksgiving in Buzzard Roost, Alabama, let me save you the trouble of pretending it’s normal. Other towns got quiet prayers over polite Read more
-
SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume III (1930-1950)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10312025 – 11032025) — Between 1930 and 1950, Americans identified at least twenty distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: marijuana, comic books (intensified), Superman, juvenile delinquency, swing music, zoot suits, pinup girls, bikinis, television, rock and roll’s precursors, Read more
-
THE CALL OF ABRAM (Genesis 12:1-20)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10202025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note: Following God without knowing the full plan is terrifying.You don’t get a roadmap. You don’t get a timeline. You don’t even get a destination address. You get: “Go. I’ll tell you when you get there.” And somehow, you’re supposed Read more
-
THE TOWER OF BABEL (Genesis 11:1-9)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10192025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note: When I was 14, I experienced what linguistic confusion actually feels like. I walked into a church service where suddenly—within minutes—half the room was speaking languages I couldn’t understand. Overlapping. Loud. Intense. And I sat there, frozen, completely disoriented. Read more
-
Did you catch that? ‘And with your seed after you.’ God’s covenant wasn’t just with Noah. It was with his descendants. As a child I was told it was for all mankind, never realizing: After the Flood, only eight people survived. Noah, his wife, Shem, Ham, Japheth, and their three wives. That’s it. Eight people.… Read more
-
CAIN & ABEL (Genesis 4:1-16)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10142025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note: I almost didn’t write this one. My original plan was to skip the full story and just give you the morals and the “Why This Matters” section. Move on quickly. Because Genesis 4 doesn’t work with the Blunt Bible format Read more
TumbleDweeeb 