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Book Review: "High Crime Area" by Joyce Carol Oates. Top Story - July 2025.
Yes, it's another JCO book and yes, it's another short story anthology. Why? Well, I've been to a new library and the only one I haven't read in terms of JCO novels from this place is called High Crime Area. I hope I get some more because I honestly do not have the money to buy all of her books. Perhaps one or two, but she hasn't written one or two has she? She's still writing more as we speak and well - I'm never going to have enough money at this rate. Let's take a look at High Crime Area, a short story anthology by Joyce Carol Oates.
By Annie Kapurabout a year ago in Geeks
A Search for Identity. Top Story - July 2025. Content Warning.
My name is Elizabeth Woods, and I am a survivor of child abuse and life changing trauma. I survived one of the worst childhoods you can ever imagine and I have written my story in a memoir: The Sex-Offender’s Daughter, available on Amazon.
By Elizabeth Woodsabout a year ago in Psyche
Villainess Review: Sheryl Anderson (My Sister's Double Life). Top Story - July 2025.
Lifetime has really been delivering when it comes to villainesses lately, and I mean really delivering. It's not just the type of villainesses, it's who they get to play them. Some faces have been new to me, some haven't, and a number of them are doing this whole Lifetime villainess thing for the very first time. Last year's bunch was delicious, but this year's has really been quite epic, and the year's nearly half over.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
Long Nose the Liar. Top Story - July 2025.
There was an old liar who lived in our village. I’m sure of it. No one else seems to remember him, but then again no one else seemed to like him either. Back then the other children called him “Long Nose the Liar” because he looked like Pinocchio, and all his stories sounded like lies.
By Judah LoVatoabout a year ago in Fiction
Coming up for Air. Top Story - July 2025.
It can’t be me she’s yelling at. There must be a mistake. Nobody calls me Tor. Not anymore. Not in years. She shouts louder this time, and darts across the street, zigzagging between beeping cars, giggling and waving an apology. She stumbles onto the pavement, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear and holds out her arms. I shuffle backwards and lower my eyes, picking at my thumbnail. It’s strange. But even after all this time, there’s something achingly familiar about seeing your mum again.
By Caroline Cravenabout a year ago in Fiction
Existentiality. Top Story - June 2025.
What is the question? Perhaps the most vexatious of all the puzzles which philosophers have pondered throughout the ages is that of the meaning of life, of what we ought to do with this magical gift, of how we ought to act and what we ought to care about, if we wish to live well. This was the original aim of all philosophy, a fact which has been largely forgotten in the academic echo-chamber of modernity: one ponders the orb as means to an end, as a way to discover the good life. Yet there is so much that man does not know, that it seems he must endeavour first to alleviate his ignorance if he is to have any definitive solution to this problem.
By Insinq Datumabout a year ago in Psyche
The Rite of the First Meal. Top Story - June 2025.
The first time I cooked in a kitchen that was mine, I cried over a box of prepackaged rice. Not because it tasted good, it really didn’t, but because I could make it, eat it, and no one would take it from me. No footsteps thudding down the hall. No shouting. No disposal switch flipping like a guillotine. Just me, the steam rising from the pot, and a silence that finally felt soft instead of sharp. There was something about standing there, watching it simmer, the scent beginning to fill the air that made me remember the first time I tried to make it. I was eleven. I hadn’t eaten in days.
By M.R. Cameoabout a year ago in Fiction
Anthropomorphism. Top Story - June 2025.
It’s distressing, you know? While thinking aloud, I stumbled upon an unexpected epiphany. Maybe the way I’d been taking care of you had been a roundabout way to care for myself. That certainly wasn’t the intent, but in the long term that’s how it turned out to be.
By Lark Hanshanabout a year ago in Fiction
The First 40 Years of Childhood Are the Hardest For A Man. The Second 40 Just Fly By.... Top Story - June 2025.
There’s a saying that perfectly sums up the entire male existence: “The first 40 years of childhood are the hardest for a man. The second 40 somehow fly by.” Honestly, I couldn’t have put it better myself.
By Tina's Blossom Lifeabout a year ago in Humor
A Journey with Old Rosie. Top Story - June 2025.
The car coughed, sputtered, and proceeded to pour copious amounts of steam into the hot air from the vicinity of the radiator. Not good. Not good at all. I steered to the edge of the desert-hot road and looked around.
By Laura DePaceabout a year ago in Fiction
Why I'm Not Worried About AI. Top Story - June 2025.
Entering our third year of a post-AI world seems to have done little to dampen the hype around it. Buzzword or not, it’s hard to ignore the vigour in which tech is determined to crown itself the new feudal lord, constantly banging the marching drum of progress to the beat of enforced adoption. As a creative, I’m just as aware of the encroachment of AI, threatening the livelihood of artists, musicians, and writers.
By Conor Matthewsabout a year ago in Writers
Wear the Mask, Play the Game. Top Story - June 2025.
I stared at the setup with familiar apprehension. I wondered if I could do it this time. Eyes stared at me in the gloom; I caught a glint over light off of horn-rimmed glasses. “Think you’re ready for this?”
By Meredith Harmonabout a year ago in Fiction
