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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

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Eleventh ChapterThe War of the WordsWritten By: Emmitt Owens(Index #07052025) Year: 2048Location: Global Literary Congress Assembly, Geneva DomeClassification: Historical Revision Initiative – Priority Alpha PART I: THE GENTLE SEDUCTION   The amphitheater stretched beneath Geneva’s atmospheric dome like a vast white shell, its crystalline walls refracting the morning light into blueish patterns Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Memory of SkinThe Tenth ChapterWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #07022025) “Touch was recoded as non-essential. But I remember it triggering something deeper than breath—something closer to being.”—Extracted from Unregistered Memory Archive #147, Tactile Preservation Initiative The Chamber of No Touch   ARIA’s Pleasure Pod activated smoothly—the curved, sterile walls pulsing with soft bioluminescence Read more

  • The Gentle Dystopia: The Ninth ChapterThe Echo That Broke the LoopWritten by: Emmitt Owens(Index #07012025) Recovered Entry: StromScript v.4.3 Author Tag: Mael Strom – Echo Writer, Lower Zones Entry:  “They believed that I was just an Echo, not realizing that one day others would Echo me.” (2125) Part One: The Viral Vector I: The Drone Painter   Yian crouched Read more

  • 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: 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: Comfort Module 9The Forth Chapter(Index #06252025)Written by: Emmitt Owens Halie NakamuraYear: 2141Location: Sector 12 (formerly Tokyo)Role: Empathic Witness – Level IV “You cannot carry the pain of others, but I can.  Empathy without correction becomes infection.  Let comfort be quiet. Let witnessing be clean.  The heart must be contained… If you feel Read more

  • 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 Secret Life of Chill n’Fill: After Hours    It was 2:47 AM on a Tuesday, that dead hour when the highway fell silent and the fluorescent lights hummed their loneliest tune. Out here in rural Alabama, 12 miles from the nearest town and surrounded by nothing but pine trees and darkness, I’d just finished Read more

  • Another Night at Chill n’Fill: The Prophet of Unnecessary Predictions *A Special Edition: Pop-Up Story*    It was early Tuesday night at Chill n’Fill, and I was three hours into my shift when Bob decided tonight was the night for what he called his “Grand Unveiling Ceremony.” Through the front windows, I could see him Read more