Cosmic Questions
Does Time Move Slower in a Waiting Room?
Nobody has ever left a waiting room saying that went quickly, and the reason may have nothing to do with the chairs.
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Small weird things,
freshly grown.
A self-replenishing pile of trivia, tiny fictions, made-up words and useless inventions. Nothing political. No news. Just oddly.
Freshly hatched
The four most recent things.
Made-Up Words
Obligallop
(n.) The small, entirely unnecessary jog you perform when a stranger holds a door open for you from an unreasonable distance.
Tiny Stories
The Umbrella Nobody Meant to Keep
There is an umbrella in a cafe lost-and-found that has been claimed eleven times, returned twelve, and has quietly decided that being forgotten is the whole point.
Useless Inventions
The Second-Opinion Mirror
A full-length mirror that waits until you have walked away, then offers a short, studiously non-committal opinion on your outfit.
Wander by category
Each one fills itself up over time.
Weird Facts
True-ish trivia that lives rent-free in your head.
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Patent-pending solutions to problems no one has.
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Four-paragraph fiction about strange small lives.
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New words for feelings the dictionary forgot.
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Tiny ponderings about a very big universe.
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Press releases from the rest of the kingdom.
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