PEREGRINE PULP

Guy One : "This whole 15-minute city thing is a scam." Guy Two : "Absolutely." Another hour passes. They chat about the weather, politics, sports, and why contemporary popular music is not as good as what they grew up with. Guy One : "Check this out." * Shows pamphlet * "Dream vacation. Look at that. That's eighteen floors. Holds almost 8,000 people ! " Guy Two : "Wow, look at that ! Is that Norwegian?" Guy One : "Carnival." Guy Two : "Right." Guy One : "Wait, look. T

GUY: So, you won the lottery and want to bring power to the world (or just your own city.) You read Our World in Data and find their...

PRIVACY At the airport. In a lounge between the gates and food court, a young British family alights on a circular couch. Mom is dealing...

SPIN Four men, two probably in their 40s and two probably in their 50s or 60s, and a child of about seven or eight are sitting at a table...

DOGBALL A camper was parked with a guy working on it. The man's dog spotted me coming from almost a block away and, like we were old...

Ziggy : I don't know. Is it just me? Tolga : What? Ziggy : Seems all the same people we all watched dedicating the last decade of...

Kyagulani Mutumbo : Swift can't sing. Matudana Kyninyi : Totally. No one in the music industry can sing. Kyagulani Mutumbo : Yeah....

So many such odd things these days. So many such things and so very odd that it’s hard to differentiate what is normal and what is...

CANDISS:  But you could be setting fire to things while adding fuel. BARTHALAHMEU:  What do you mean? C:  Well, you have no information....

NOAH: Someone was telling me how the Gospel of Mark, according to Mark, St. Mark the Evangelist, was originally transmitted by itinerant...

Late one night my wife returned home And my wife, she was without her shoes And so I asked my wife “Wife, where are your shoes?”

ME: Okay, just hear me out. YOU: Fine. ME: Harris takes the stage with Michelle Obama and Oprah. Behind them is a phalanx of lawyers that everyone in that world would recognize. They're, like, filling the whole stage. And every one of them is in their most serious tie. Kamala begins: I stand before you this evening to concede the election to Donald J. Trump. We, myself and the Democratic Party, fought long and hard. And so very many of you were there right alongside us the

EVERY EXPERT:  Putin just has nothing to gain from launching a war with Ukraine. He would never do it. ME:  I don’t know about that. ALL...

March 2014: Mme Dienne LaCarétt, mother of post-neo-colonial orthonarcotics, looked up and down, high and low, walking the length of the long, long rows of tall, tall shelves. And she walked this way back, scouring each spiny wall like a hungry tapir homing in on rotting fruit obscured by fallen leaves. Eventually a librarian noticed, approached, and asked “May I help you find what you’re looking for?” “Nope” said Dienne, crisp and sure, as she walked along. “Have you used th

NADAV: It’s difficult to understand how we aren’t gleefully waltzing toward a global war. VANDANA: And the real thing, not the isolated pseudo-conflicts we’ve been dabbling in for two decades. NADAV: Yeah. VANDANA: Indeed, that’s my sense. And I've been hearing others riffing about this. NADAV: These things just seem to spark off. Do they not? I'm no historian. VANDANA: Folks have to want it, I suppose. But there are loads of triggers and slopes. NADAV: And how many co

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NON-FICTION Today, August 22, 2024, a fellow recorded a video on his phone as he witnessed the Marinovka air base, on the Don river in...

You wake up on the floor of a small windowless room. Disoriented, you sit up. You're not sure where you are or how you got there. In front of you is a desk. Hanging on the wall behind the desk is a tattered old poster under glass in a modern frame. The poster reminds you of something from some war you learned something about. In thick black type, the artefact reads: DON'T WORRY YOU'RE FAR TOO SAVVY TO BE MANIPULATED BY PROPAGANDA The image accompanying those words is the head