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    What Would They Call My Story?

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    14/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    What Would They Call My Story?

    My life was a manuscript of tentative titles and unread pages. I thought the story was a solo act, until the genre changed entirely. The real title isn’t written in ink – it’s written in us.

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  • Daily Prompt

    So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut on Dresden, Lies We Tell Ourselves, and Making Meaning in the Void

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    13/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    47–70 minutes
    So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut on Dresden, Lies We Tell Ourselves, and Making Meaning in the Void

    On the 81st anniversary of Dresden’s firestorm, Kurt Vonnegut returns to his childhood home to discuss survivor’s guilt, the lies we need to survive, and why laughter beats despair. A conversation about making meaning in an indifferent universe – with push-ups, whoopee cushions, and forgiveness.

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  • Daily Prompt

    Patria Potestas

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    12/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    18–27 minutes
    Patria Potestas

    They call it treason; I call it obedience. Whipped into a marriage and crowned against my will, I pay the price for my father’s wager. I was a sovereign of straw, and the axe is the only truth left.

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  • Daily Prompt

    A Report on Certain Irregularities of the Blood and the Law

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    11/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    12–19 minutes
    A Report on Certain Irregularities of the Blood and the Law

    I intended a scholarly observation; I committed instead an act of ruinous honesty. Here is the record of a fevered day, where the law was cold, the blood was hot, and justice nowhere to be found.

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  • Women In STEM

    Elizabeth Philpot: Painting the Jurassic in Fossil Ink

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    10/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    35–52 minutes
    Elizabeth Philpot: Painting the Jurassic in Fossil Ink

    She used 200-million-year-old ink to draw the sea monsters of Lyme Regis. Meet the forgotten expert who taught Mary Anning to read the cliffs, classified the first fossil fish, and turned a seaside hobby into hard science.

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  • New Corinth

    Views I Used to Steal

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    09/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    4–5 minutes
    Views I Used to Steal

    I spent a decade stumbling through New Corinth’s ruins, trading tetanus shots for photos. But I didn’t just outgrow the trespassing. The city changed the locks, and I can’t afford the rent on the views I used to steal.

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  • Daily Prompt

    Waiting for the Grown-Ups: A Sociology of the “Adulting” Generation

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    08/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    26–38 minutes
    Waiting for the Grown-Ups: A Sociology of the “Adulting” Generation

    Why does “adulting” feel like a prank? Explore the psychology, sociology, and history behind the meme. From impostor syndrome to economic hurdles, discover why modern adulthood feels like a performance – and why it isn’t just you.

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  • Poetry

    Break

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    07/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    Break

    I’m fine. Really. Just buried under work – the productive kind that counts, you know? Not those other things. Those can wait. They always wait. But this urgency I’ve created? It demands everything.

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  • Daily Prompt

    Echoes from Hope Road: A Reason with the Gong

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    06/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    20–29 minutes
    Echoes from Hope Road: A Reason with the Gong

    At 56 Hope Road, the Tuff Gong returns. Marley reasons on surviving assassins, football as meditation, and why he genuinely baffles at insurance. An Earthstrong dialogue exploring true wealth, unity, and the rhythms of revolution. One Love.

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  • Daily Prompt

    Welcome Stranger

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    05/02/2026

    | Reading time:

    20–30 minutes
    Welcome Stranger

    They call it the Welcome Stranger, the biggest lump of gold the world ever saw. But I’ll tell you the truth of it: the finding took a moment, but the carrying of it… that took the rest of my life.

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