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  • By popular demand, video stories are here at Jenna McKenna dot com! “I’m here now” is a 500-word speculative fiction. Set in a near future Florida city, a person with nothing to lose takes a chance on Nowhere.

  • I’m now working with video producer DC to bring my short stories to you in video format. For those who love great short fiction but don’t have time to sit and look at print, I’ll be sharing my newest stories, as well as the best of the back catalog, on YouTube and Odysee videos.

  • There are Chuck Will’s widows in the cemetery in the spring but it’s usually too loud to hear them. When I do hear them, I know they’re calling me. In north Florida they sing into June. But today might be the only day this year I hear one in Tampa. Here’s the Wikipedia. Here’s a…

  • Marion. Beverly. Shirley. Vivian. Courtney. Hyacinth. As male names began to be assigned to female babies, the deprecated status of women and girls lowered the status of these names so they could no longer be used for boys. In the future, all names will be coded female and it will no longer be possible to…

  • is that she made makeup tutorial videos for a long. long. time. before she finally hit on the formula that made her a legend. Seriously her YouTube channel goes back at least a decade where she throws a lot of different stuff against the wall — movie character makeovers, unboxing videos, boyfriend makeovers — before…

  • Last night as a result of eating a slice of key lime pie that was at least twice as large as I wanted, I had a nightmare. The nightmare was that I scratched a bump on my leg that I thought was an ingrown hair (I get lots of ingrown hairs around my knees, hips,…

  • The standard advice is to hold off, but most retirees claim the benefit as soon as they can, at age 62. Here’s what to know when you’re planning the unplannable. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/business/social-security-70-retirement.html This is a great article to read if you want to spend the next five minutes muttering “fuck you” over and…

  • Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence — Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/monsanto-roundup-safety-study-retracted Haha nothing to see here

  • The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul, Burkhard Bilger writes. — Read on www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/the-secret-sound-of-stax Steve Cropper has died. Safe travels to The Colonel. You can hear the STAX Songwriter Demos “Written in their Soul” pretty much anywhere music comes out.