Small Town Stories

  • 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

  • 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

  • Unbreakable Spirits, Robin Songs, and Childhood Fears    The clock had just struck ten on this Friday night at Chill n’Fill, and the weekend energy was already crackling through the air like electricity before a storm. Behind me, tonight’s painting had appeared as Norman Rockwell’s “Saying Grace” from 1951, that tender scene of a grandmother Read more