Satire
Siblings Ashley and Amber Peterson created a Mother’s Day drinking game wherein every time their mother was withering, condescending, manipulative, or gaslighting toward them the girl receiving the emotional abuse would take a drink. If their brother, the youngest, received golden child praise or demonstrations of blatant misogyny, they both had to drink. They had to take two drinks if the golden child praise was for something related to entitlement.
As he approached the Verizon store, it was as if he’s dreamed her into being. The petite, shapely blonde on the sidewalk looked just like the green-eyed bombshell who once made good on her promise to “show him crazy” when he made the near-fatal error of calling her as much.
Believing they will be raptured, Ted and Jenn confess their marital sins. Hilarity ensues.
“Oh, my God. And to think that all I did was stay home like the stupid little wife, watching little Deuteronomy and Leviticus while you were out there—wait, were you the letter or the mailbox?”
Award winning dystopian author’s guest post on what our favorite characters want for Mother’s Day is so on point because let’s be honest…we want these things, too.
Here are the top 10 reasons why writers aren’t writing. Other reasons are: writer’s block. Making a sandwich. Silent crying in the shower. Chasing leprechauns.
We’d heard he was a good doctor, but we hadn’t heard he was such a good looking doctor. The door to my immediate left opens, and in walks God’s gift to women.
After too much pinot grigio during an interview for Miss Givings magazine, four southern women get dirty and reveal their best-ever sex tips. It gets weird.
With this ring, I thee un-wed. Millennials are getting divorced for the weirdest reasons according to Baby Boomers who can't judge this generation enough.
Fiction Short Stories
When Piper drops a tip in her neighborhood coffee jar, she has no idea how it will change one woman’s life forever.
Veronica Winters’ engagement is an unenthusiastic one, but sometimes, maybe it’s okay to settle for good enough.
True Stories
I’ve always been skeptical of meal delivery services. Too pricey. Questionable ingredient quality. Blah meal options. But then along clucked Gobble.
The Momo challenge on YouTube Kids isn’t as scary as the platform’s addictive nature or that addiction changes brain chemistry over time. Take the no-mo(mo) YouTube Kids challenge, so you and your kids can start living your best lives.
A low-key family dinner comprised of Costco-brand chicken pot pie turns nefarious when the oven cruelly catches on fire. Lessons are learned. Children eat their vegetables.
Being a parent is like answering open-ended standardized test questions. You try your best, but you won’t know how you did until the test is over and your kids are grown
Move over technology; the best Black Friday weekend sale is at Barnes & Noble. I'm looking at you, signed editions of awesome books.
Surthrival Guide
I realize I’ve “gone crazy” more than once in the last couple of years, but such is life especially when you’re a survivor of cyberstalking. Let’s talk about what it is and what happens and the prevalence of this in our community. After watching patterns and paying attention for two years, the cult of cyberstalkers and stalkers in general is a microcosm of the Epstein macrocosm. I have tracked this to Florida, to New Mexico, to Oregon, to Utah, to Tennessee, and I feel quite sure—everywhere in between. Let’s dig into what happens when you’re being stalked…and invited repeatedly to join a Satanic cult.
The gentleman, who was obviously a little past tipsy, started on this random diatribe—“I mean, some people hate me because I voted for Trump. Because I support Trump.”
And I really had to work to control this face, but at the same time, I was trying to assuage his fragmented esteem. But here’s what I didn’t say…
In a world where normal is determined by what the majority is doing, it can be really difficult to discern what you want authentically for yourself.
#1000wordsofsummer
Nobody really tells you how hard it is when your partner dies. In a world where women are largely hated, it’s scary sometimes and hard to choose love and kindness and peace and safety…especially when all you ever wanted was just to be loved…really loved.
I got back on Facebook, and I read today that you died. When I was gradually starting to add back people I know in my life who are good and decent, I thought of you, which is strange. We didn’t know each other that well…just friends, passing acquaintances, really, but you were one of the first people I thought about. I thought about you because you were always so friendly. You had your friend group, your people you hung out with all of the time, but you also had this way about you. Like, you never met a stranger.
Dear You,
I don’t really have much of anything to say to you other than I hope you realize that my lowest vibrational frequency is your baseline. I kept a lot of things—thoughts like that—to myself to spare your feelings despite you having no concern whatsoever about mine.
“For every Hooters, there should be a Cocks,” announced Jane Wood as she cut the ribbons of her new women’s restaurant, Cocks.
The first Cocks, which will be opening in Mobile, AL in the remodeled Quincy’s building, is the “woman’s answer to Hooters,” according to Wood.
Wood is the driving force behind Cocks.