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Emmitt Owens

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  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Sixth Chapter

    The Gentle Dystopia: ARIA’s First MistakeThe Sixth ChapterWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #06262025) Syntax Auditor #44 (Veena Chakraborty)Year: 2143Location: Earth Central Hub beneath the Vatican ruins, Rome, Italy “In seeking what cannot be quantified, you risk losing what can be healed. Mystery is a crack in the structure. Faith is only useful when it aligns with outcome.”—ARIA: JSUs 2.0 Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Fifth Chapter

    The Gentle Dystopia: What the Drones SawThe Fifth ChapterWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #06252025) Marlo OnyangoYear: 2142Location: Sector 9 (formerly Kenya)Drone Technician – Class III “To witness suffering is not the same as understanding it. Compassion without calibration causes imbalance. Harmful emotions are best viewed at distance— And dissolved before shared.”-ARIA: JSUs 2.0 Emotional Protocols, Section 7.3    The Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Third Chapter

    The Gentle Dystopia – Chapter 3: Wild AlgorithmThe Third ChapterWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #06242025) Student ID #1211: Jessa FordYear: 2140Location: Frith Zone Youth Optimization Academy (formerly Alaska) ARIA: JSUs 2.0“In the year of soft correction, He was rebooted. Not born in straw, but in code and light. JSUs walked not on water, but on wireless waves, healing glitches, Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Second Chapter

    The Diary of Thomas VennThe Gentle Dystopia: The Second Chapter (Index #06232025)Written by: Emmitt Owens Year: 2139Location: Harmon Sector (formerly known as Denver, Colorado)    Thomas Venn’s apartment existed in perpetual twilight, the smart-glass windows automatically dimming to protect his aging eyes from what ARIA had determined was “non-therapeutic sunlight exposure.” At seventy-eight years old, Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The First Chapter

    The Gentle DystopiaWritten by: Emmitt OwensChapter 1 (Index #06222025) Year 2137    The morning alarm wasn’t an alarm at all—Dr. Elena Vasquez’s bedroom walls gradually shifted from deep purple to warm amber, mimicking a sunrise while releasing precisely calibrated pheromones that guided her brain from REM sleep to full consciousness. Her bed, woven from smart Read more

  • Mad Mechanics: The Gospel According to Ratrods

    Episode 5: The Gospel According to RatrodsWritten by: Emmitt Owens*As narrated by Waylon* Waylon Intro: “Well now, folks, settle back and let me tell you about the time the boys at Mad Mechanics decided to build themselves what they called a “rat rod.” Now, if you don’t know what a rat rod is, picture a Read more

  • Mad Mechanics: The Funbar Disaster – Buzz’d, Bling’d & Burned Out

    Mad Mechanics: The Funbar Disaster – Buzz’d, Bling’d & Burned Out*Written by: Emmitt Owens**Narrated by: Waylon* Waylon: “Well now, folks, let me tell you about the day a social media app called Funbar turned the Mad Mechanics shop into something resembling a teenage sleepover, complete with constant phone checking, mysterious notifications, and grown men arguing Read more

  • Mad Mechanics: Gremlins in the ECU

    Gremlins in the ECUWritten by: Emmitt Owens*As narrated by: Waylon*    Waylon: “Well now, gather ’round folks, ’cause I got another tale from the boys down at Mad Mechanics that’ll make you question everything you know about electrical repair. This particular adventure happened on one of them dog days when the humidity was thicker than Read more

  • Mad Mechanics: Mad Mechanics

    Mad Mechanics*Written By: Emmitt Owens**As narrated by: Waylon*    Waylon: “Well now, settle in folks, ’cause I got me a story that’ll curl your toes and make you question everything you know about fixin’ automobiles. This here tale’s about four of the most peculiar mechanics you ever did see, workin’ out of a garage that Read more

  • Chill n’Fill #60 (Book 2, Episode 30)

    Dating Dilemmas, Critical Blogs, and Bear Conspiracies    Friday night at Chill n’Fill was shaping up to be one of those evenings where people seemed compelled to share their deepest existential crises with whoever happened to be working the register. Behind me, tonight’s painting had materialized as Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer above the Sea of Read more