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On Separation Anxiety

Silhouetted man with dog on an empty city street at sunrise, holding coffee and grocery bag; no other people or lights visible.

Separation Anxiety (from Last Man Standing)
A lone survivor wakes in a world emptied overnight of every other human voice. Pets still need feeding, coffee still goes stale, and the Internet hums with nothing new to say. Through small rituals—feeding the animals, raiding a gas-station for fried chicken, worrying about the morality of burglary—he builds a fragile code of civility to hold off the madness of absolute solitude. When the lights finally go out, he must decide whether survival itself is worth the effort.

Separation Anxiety is the opening movement of a planned cycle, Last Man Standing, in which different isolated souls confront the same inexplicable silence from their own corners of the world. Each chapter tests a different version of hope: endurance, denial, faith, and the temptation to give up entirely.

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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 6

A young woman with a faint scar above her brow stands beside an old pickup truck loaded with boxes, a duffel bag, and a computer monitor. A teenage boy leans on the tailgate, smiling shyly as golden autumn light filters through the trees around a quiet suburban street.

In The Last Straw, hunger and circumstance drive Doc back to the house she fled, where old ghosts wait behind every doorframe. Her friendship with Bill, the only mind that ever matched her own, glows briefly and ends too soon in a crash that René witnesses from the wrong side of a body bag. Peachy drifts into borrowed identities, the town unravels, and Doc—scarred, exhausted, furious—watches it all from the eye of the storm. By the time she boards the westbound bus, she’s outgrown the gravity of the poisoned river and the broken pumps. She carries only the hum of memory and the strange mercy of surviving long enough to start over.

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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 5

A teenage girl with a bandaged brow sits on the floor of a dim apartment beside a duffel bag filled with glowing computer towers and cables. Snow drifts outside the window where parallel train tracks fade into the distance. A McDonald’s visor and a bike helmet rest near her in the cold blue light.

The Blows at Home follows Doc as violence inside her house erupts into open daylight. A ringing phone, a flash of temper, a blow that leaves blood and a scar. She walks away and learns survival by repetition: the salt of McDonald’s fries, the hum of the fryer, the long bike rides between school and work. Winter hardens around her, teachers give up, friends drift. When petty crime and hunger meet pride, she turns a failed burglary into proof that she can master the system that once mastered her.

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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 4

Inside a rusted brick pumping station at sunset, three teens stand among massive green pumps and broken rails as light filters through cracked windows.

In The Sky and the Blows, the trio’s fragile friendship begins to fracture inside the humming shell of an abandoned pumping station. René’s jokes curdle into dangerous ideas, Peachy flirts with faith and self-destruction, and Doc clings to machinery as proof that order still exists. Between thunderclaps, flashbacks, and a final accident that draws blood and silence, childhood collapses into something heavier and irrevocably adult.

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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 3

An abandoned house marked “HQ” stands among black reeds and oil-slick puddles in a poisoned marsh, its porch collapsing under the gray spring light.

In The Superfund Spring, the thaw comes everywhere but the old dump site where Doc, Peachy, and René discover their so-called HQ—a crumbling house surrounded by poisoned marsh. What begins as another reckless adventure turns grim as they piece together the truth: they’ve built their clubhouse on a wound in the earth. Between blackened reeds, rainbow-slick water, and relics of lives long gone, laughter turns to unease. It’s the moment when childhood curiosity meets the adult realization that some places remember what was done to them.

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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 2

Three teenagers stand on the frozen marsh of the river beneath a full moon, watching a glowing, four-lighted UFO pursued by military helicopters across the winter sky.

Under a full winter moon, Doc, René, and Peachy walk the frozen edge of the Bush River and witness something that defies explanation. Between the hum of turbines and the silence of the ice, the trio see lights move against the grain of physics—an elliptical object chased by Army helicopters, vanishing and returning like breaths. Whether test flight or visitation, the night leaves them changed, their laughter brittle against the cold, and their certainty of the world forever fractured.

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Children of a Forgotten Tomorrow: Part 1

A fourteen-year-old balances on a rusted railroad trestle high above the Gunpowder River, winter-gray sky stretching overhead as rapids crash against the rocks below.

This epic about the forgotten children of gen-x opens with The River Children, a meditation on growing up amid the poisoned rivers, abandoned factories, and winter marshes of rural Maryland. Doc and their friends trespass through a landscape of danger and wonder—bridges, quarries, and dreams of underground libraries—learning to hear the world’s warnings before they arrive. It’s a story of vigilance, identity, and the fragile holiness of survival in a place that never quite forgave its children for surviving it.

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Powder Blue

A powder-blue double-wide trailer under drone searchlights at dusk, its siding glowing faintly in the haze.

A family hides inside a double-wide while armored troops and surveillance drones sweep the sky outside. What begins as a tense, procedural siege—searchlights, thermal scans, the sick choreography of authority—shifts into something stranger.

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A Meal in Three Courses

A polished silver cloche reflects a distorted face at the end of a dim, burgundy-carpeted trailer corridor.

In a stitched chain of trailers dressed in polite dimness and burgundy carpet, a family follows an invitation to a banquet that performs hospitality a little too perfectly. What waits at the end isn’t gore so much as complicity—a ritual plated to make spectators of the people who love each other. One father decides not to play along. He breaks the room, names the door, and walks out with something the feast can’t own: the right to look without flinching.

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Flipper

A figure in winter clothes stands in a snowy backyard at twilight, facing a glowing blue neon “OPEN” sign tangled in ivy, while two neighbors watch from the porch of a weathered wooden house lit with warm amber light.

When a weary house-flipper buys a decaying rowhouse from a man who swears his “art project” hums at night, the job turns into a surreal neighborhood exorcism. Between the meddling neighbors, a backyard full of snarled extension cords, and a neon OPEN sign that refuses to die, Wren discovers that some repairs belong to electricians—and some to whatever force keeps the lights of the world from devouring us all. Flipper is a darkly comic ghost-in-the-wiring story about ownership, responsibility, and the small miracles of doing things yourself.

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