DEAD HAND After a tornado struck Cincinnati in 1974, Sears floor manager Joe Fishbourne attempted to call his ex-wife from a downtown payphone with the excuse of checking whether or not she was okay. When he opened the attached phonebook, however, his... www.greaterrealityarea.net/dead-hand/

Today's piece for Greater Reality Area will be released tomorrow instead due to an unusual work schedule this month. Thank you for your patience!

Many mistake their righteousness for their personality

Who called it Philip K Dick’s Valis Trilogy and not Romestuck

in the dark, the voice telling you where to go probably isn’t a shepherd

As I age I find I am more and more intellectually distant from my cohort; I can watch the curiosity and care bleed from people with time, the urge to find the individual self abandoned for pragmatic substitute activities. The more I give to life the less I recognize humanity.

THE SECRET OF THE SNAIL In the art of the classic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, the Nine of Pentacles depicts a noblewoman alone, surrounded by a decadence of grapes. In her left hand is a hooded falcon, as calm and indifferent to the surrounding world as she... www.greaterrealityarea.net/the-secret-o...

placing my bet now that the p6 protagonist is from LA

uh, hello, based department? based department, do you read? are you there, based department? please respond! command, it seems we've lost based department

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KLAXON AND CHRYON (SUBSCRIBERS ONLY) Two gods sat sad by side at a mermaid bar in Montana, drinking eighty-dollar pours of Karuizawa vintage. Some of the girls who worked in the aquarium had been in the industry ever since Atlantis burned. Though young... www.greaterrealityarea.net/klaxon-and-c...

who the hell called it star fox and not record of andross war

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I have been reading this one out loud to anyone in my life who will listen

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The numerous commencement ceremonies this year ending in booing, the grand “fuck you” of “does anyone even care about the next generation anymore,” really sets a baseline for the next several years of strife.

Looks like we're already "retrowilding" www.greaterrealityarea.net/piping-hot-s...

It is interesting to me that, up until maybe fifteen years ago, it was a given that every computer for a home office needed its own printer. It was implied that whatever you produced on a machine was part of a complex print and delivery process. Now, print inconveniences the empire of digitization.

PIPING HOT SKY MUSHROOMS When cultivated in darkness, enoki mushrooms spill outward into long, pale tendrils in a sprawl not unlike that of fireworks. At this stand, sponsored by the University Beneath St. Paul, they were being sold-tempura fried, then... www.greaterrealityarea.net/piping-hot-s...

On this day, 11 years ago, I launched North of Reality, with issue #1, the Flintlock Brain. Over the years that followed, it would result in over 300 works (counting the secret letters) of fiction, evolving into the explorable fiction space it is today. www.northofreality.com/tales/2015/5...

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On this day, 11 years ago, I launched North of Reality, with issue #1, the Flintlock Brain. Over the years that followed, it would result in over 300 works (counting the secret letters) of fiction, evolving into the explorable fiction space it is today. www.northofreality.com/tales/2015/5...

Also, this marks issue #20 of the Greater Reality Area! Thank you everyone for reading!

PIPING HOT SKY MUSHROOMS When cultivated in darkness, enoki mushrooms spill outward into long, pale tendrils in a sprawl not unlike that of fireworks. At this stand, sponsored by the University Beneath St. Paul, they were being sold-tempura fried, then... www.greaterrealityarea.net/piping-hot-s...

in the 2000s people believed you could use economics to make an apple grow like an orange inside. that's real. Anyway I've been kicked out of yet another farming village for my cowboy ways and must reach a church before sundown. The things that hunt me in the night cannot touch holy ground

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Each of the matches has a little face carved into the bright red tip. Once ignited, these effigies shriek

i’m wandering through the backrooms and i find it quite serene. i’ve found a garden tended to by an unseen force, a reflecting pool, an old barn, a world in glass miniature that represents all of my actions both past and present simultaneously,a copse of manzanita trees, a baseball diamond, a forge,

making up some magic cards to troll the boys

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he cannot be stopped

a connoisseur of american city pop are you? hehe… have you tried hall and oates

ONION (n): subatomic demon particle

THE TWELVE HOURS OF UNIVERSAL NIGHT Leister Helmer, Wisconsinite inventor of the Universal Night Clock (patented 1954), rejected the standard observation of February 29th taking place every four years, denouncing it as a “depraved and uncreative use of... www.greaterrealityarea.net/the-twelve-h...

new government alien tranche reveals that only the blue avians are real. the new falco design in star fox is based on the real falco lombardi, who has been living in secret in an undisclosed new jersey township for the last two decades

I think why I love marathon is because it’s hard as hell, but its difficulty results from chaos management, rather than perfection testing

if the band didn’t exist a man who said he was “into coldplay” would be incredibly terrifying

yo what's up, I've got a new lil project out. it's a zine I made in a day, featuring two reviews: one of Marathon (2026) and one of Armored Core VI (2023). it's 2 bucks for 28 pages of extremely crunchy jpegs thresholded to within an inch of their life, and also my writing. enjoy

I do sort of like the goofier old star fox look, but can’t unsee this:

Philip K. Dick used the "Mr. X' Wild Ride" format, in close to its contemporary sense, decades before the Mr. Bones copypasta, with its original referent, the Wind in the Willows Disneyland attraction

If your whole thing is being a public figure, your job is for people to like you. If your audience doesn’t like you, you’re not going to win them over by complaining about them right back. It’s far too easy to forget this when everyone online has been forced to be their own public relations agent.

wizard business in minneapolis

extremely happy with this dramatic framing

EAT ALL YOU CAN art by @tinyobscurae.bsky.social The Florida Keys themselves were once alive. Their bedrock formed from the calcified remains of what was once a sprawling forest of coral, strangled of all color and complexity by the sudden onset of an... www.greaterrealityarea.net/eat-all-you-...

european ones oscillate at fifty Hz, american ones at sixty. bad time if you brought the wrong continent's electric knife.

somehow none of these people are picking up on the fact that scientology is allowing these runs