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A Tuesday PoemBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #12302025) Tuesday weighs heavy like wet wool, this day that pretendsto be productive but really just slouches between the bookends—and I’m thinking about how we’ve built this elaborate theaterwhere everyone’s both audience and performer and no onecan remember their lines but we all keep showing up anyway,swiping left on our… Read more
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The Opt-OutEpisode 5By: Emmitt Owens (Index #12292026) “Tolerance for not knowing is the quiet skill modern relationships no longer teach. It’s the ability to sit inside uncertainty without immediately labeling it, fixing it, or defending against it. It’s trusting that meaning can emerge over time instead of demanding clarity on demand. Relationships don’t unfold through certainty—they… Read more
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The Physics of Sleeping With YouBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #12012025) Every night, the same accusation flies across the mattress like a thrown pillow. “You’re doing it again,” Marina says, her voice carrying through the darkness. I open one eye. I am currently occupying approximately seven inches of mattress space—what Marina has taken to calling “The… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: 1970-1990A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #11062025 – 11102025) ─────────────────────────────── LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT ─────────────────────────────── This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary. It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use provisions of… Read more
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Chill’n’FillBook 3: Episode 2Presence, Worth, and the Heart of SuccessWritten by: Emmitt Owens Tuesday night at Chill n’Fill was settling into its familiar rhythm when I looked up from restocking the candy display to see our one-eyed polar bear mascot in its latest incarnation. Bob had outdone himself this time—the bear now sported what… Read more
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