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Emmitt Owens

  • Chill n’Fill: Book 3, Episode 4

    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

  • She Said She Was Hungry

    Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.    Early spring 2010. My future second wife was visiting for the weekend, and I wanted to show her how cooking together could be one of the best parts of building a relationship. There’s something about working in the kitchen as a team – the communication, 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

  • Tuesday in My Brain

    Tuesday in My BrainFor My Grandchildren: Silas, Elijah & Theo(Index # 09112025) In the town of the teapots I painted a shoe,With pickles for buttons and some glittery glue.I danced with a doorknob, I sang to a chair,I juggled three penguins while brushing my hair.Pull the moon backward and tie it with shoestrings,With a bubblegum Read more

  • Russellville Alabama

    What do you love about where you live? I live in Russellville, Alabama. Population 10,855. It’s a small town in Franklin County that grew up around an old military road Andrew Jackson built after the War of 1812. We’re tucked into the foothills of the Appalachians – small mountains, canyons, creeks everywhere, caves and natural Read more

  • Moving at the Right Speed

    What brings you peace? Peace, for me, finally feels like it’s moving at the right speed. Not slowing down or stopping, but finding that rhythm where everything inside aligns … I’m happy as hell because something fundamental has truly shifted. It’s both something I’ve found and something I’ve created – I’ve discovered this natural pace Read more

  • Chill’n’Fill: Book 3, Episode 3

    This story said ‘what if we made a convenience store clerk into the most emotionally intelligent person in town’ and honestly? A Revolutionary dating strategy 💯 Read more

  • Subject Change’s

    it’s tiring, isn’t it— trying to be enough in a world that keeps shifting the goalposts. they say: be driven, but don’t try too hard. be soft, but not too open. feel things, but don’t let it show. and i’m just here, trying to be honest without falling apart. trying to stay whole in a Read more

  • The Broken Toenail Catastrophe

    The Broken Toenail Catastrophe*As told by Gary*By: Emmitt Owens(Index #08082025)    Let me start by saying that what happened at Orange Beach last Tuesday was not my fault. Well, okay, it was technically my fault, but hear me out—any reasonable person would have made the same decisions I made, given the circumstances. The fact that Read more

  • I am, What you see!

    How would you describe yourself to someone?    I see myself through an “I am what you see” lens. People make sense of each other in that first instant of judgment, so if you think I’m amazing, then that’s the version of me you’re experiencing. If you think I’m arrogant, that’s real too.   I carry Read more