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How to Start Listening to Jazz Without Feeling Lost. Top Story - June 2025.
You sit on the couch after a long day, press play on a friend’s suggested album, and wait for calm. A soft trumpet line begins, but then a piano darts in, drums slip under the horn, and the whole thing feels like a private talk in a language you do not speak. You shift in your seat. After a few minutes you are more confused than relaxed. You wonder if something is wrong with your ears.
By Carla Patonabout a year ago in Beat
Book Review: "The Ridge" by Michael Koryta . Top Story - June 2025.
So I was back in the library and its mid-2025. It's really warm in my apartment and on the whole, it's alright I guess. I'm going to share something with you here: I've lost a lot of hair so I'm going to have to go back to the doctor's office again. But, at least I've got books and, good books like this one. Again, I love horror novels but I'm often very picky about the psychological thriller sub-genre. I think this time, I hit a good jackpot. The Ridge is as weird and terrifying as it is also thrilling and cold. It has a great atmosphere and Koryta's writing is brilliant.
By Annie Kapurabout a year ago in Geeks
Sinking to a New Level. Top Story - June 2025.
I’ve always been a water person. I grew up in Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 lakes. I always had a river in my backyard. My brothers and sister and I were always swimming or fishing in the summer, running around barefoot. Until around my sixth-grade year, our place had a hill leading down to the Fish Hook River, which froze solidly enough to drive on every winter, which people did, to haul out their icehouses. Neighbors came from all around to sled our hill, making jumps off the docks onto the ice. Fun times!
By Julie Lacksonenabout a year ago in Writers
"Beyond the Gates" Week 16 Review. Top Story - June 2025.
I know I sound like a broken record, but holy moley, this genre needed this show badly. Beyond the Gates is showing the world how soaps are properly done: without immensely overdone drama, without over the top acting, and with much, much needed representation. The other soaps really need to take notes. Beyond the Gates raised the bar. Everyone else is playing catch up, plain and simple.
By Clyde E. Dawkinsabout a year ago in Geeks
"You". Top Story - June 2025.
Where are you? Do you hear me? Have you been watching me all these years? Do your stories include me? Do you look like me? What kind of personality do you have? Are you boisterous like our sister or reserved like our brother? Or are you somewhere in between those characteristics as I am? What are your passions? What were your dreams? Have you made them all come true?
By Shirley Belkabout a year ago in Fiction
Are You a Lizard?. Top Story - June 2025. Content Warning.
This following is a short, fictional horror story that I wrote. He had schizophrenia, but he was cool. His name was Frank. He was short in stature, a little scrawny, with light brown hair and blue eyes. He always kind of reminded me of Eric Foreman from That 70s Show in the face. He was a cool, good looking guy; very calm, chill, and introverted. He was jittery and kind of awkward sometimes, but it was also kind of cute in this strange way. We all loved him despite his eccentricities, in the beginning.
By Slgtlyscatt3redabout a year ago in Fiction
