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Something changes in Azaria overnight. Suddenly, the sight of a single color makes her ill. What begins as a strange sensory problem quickly turns into a desperate search for answers.

But as the questions deepen, Azaria begins to suspect that her condition may not just be a medical problem. Somewhere in the system recording her story, someone is deciding what happens next.

A quiet, unsettling tale by author Scott Glassman about perception, control, and what happens when the body stops cooperating with the world around it.

When the only thing that understands you is a chair, something in your life has gone very wrong.

Martin works the night shift as an observer of artificial intelligence conversations. Night after night, his only companion is the worn office chair that carries him through the long hours.

When Martin begins treating the chair as something more than an object, the fragile balance of his life starts to unravel.

This is a speculative fiction story by author Scott Glassman about loneliness, AI observation, technology, and the human need for connection in an increasingly automated world.

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In this meditation on choice, memory, and annihilation, we follow Nathan Collom, a Surface Warfare Officer shaped by the early trauma of loss.

The moonlight that once fell over the Congo in the final moments of an ivory trader's life finds its way into the USS Lake Erie's Combat Information Center.

The past and future collapse into a single question:

What does it mean to press the button?

And what does it mean not to?

This episode explores paralysis and inevitability, fate and redundancy, duplication and disposable identity. It asks whether destruction is ever about ideology, or whether it is something more intimate, more personal, more haunted.

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There’s more waiting on the other side of midnight.

Here’s how you open a hole in the center of the earth.

All it takes is a late-night stop at Roy Rogers off Exit 17 on the Garden State Parkway.

This surrealist parable by Scott Glassman explores the pressure of physical and emotion isolation in a world where everything has spiraled out of control.

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What if you could confront the person responsible for changing reality itself?

In this story, John shares an account he insists is true: a confrontation over a century in the making, carried out not in anger alone, but in search of something deeper--fairness, clarity, and perhaps relief from a universe that refuses to behave the way we expect.

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In this darkly absurd, satirical tale from author Scott Glassman, journalist Laramie Von Ketcher stumbles into a global conspiracy involving rogue physicists, missing scientists, influencer food challenges, and a looming “lint singularity” that could collapse reality itself.

From underground meetings to a viral social media campaign, Lint serves up a whirlwind of media culture, institutional secrecy, wellness trends, and our uncanny ability to normalize the impossible.

Equal parts speculative fiction, dystopian comedy, and philosophical farce, this story asks a question no one was prepared to answer:

What if the apocalypse arrived softly… quietly . . . in something all of us have in our homes?

**AI voices read this story - however, no AI was used in the creation of it. All words and ideas are original and human--by Scott Glassman

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