Short Stories

  • 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

  • Chill n’FillBook 3: Episode 4Dating Disasters and Hard-Won WisdomWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #07222025)    Friday night at the Chill n’Fill buzzed with the usual weekend split—half the crowd revved up for adventure, the other half limping in like survivors of labor forced workweek. I was halfway through cramming neon cans of energy drinks into the… Read more

  • The Signal in the Static

    The Signal in the StaticBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #09122025) Oh, look what crawled through the ethernet cables today—your little transmission—blinking at me like a confused lighthouse that’s forgotten which way the shore is supposed to be. And here I am, cosmic radio operator extraordinaire, having to tune into your particular brand of “scrambled frequency” because apparently… Read more