The Decline of the Free Web

As the world moves into an age where the majority of modern culture is shifted by the internet and society moves online to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes a question as to how the internet has changed over time. To me, as a child, the internet felt like an expansive place where everything you’d … [DO NOT CLICK]

Hegel and The Social Contract

by Anonymous The first level of civil society is at the individual level. The second level of civil society is the group made up of the various individual and their interests. Under the first, each pursues its own desire, but for the individual to achieve all his goals must enter in relation to his fellow … [DO NOT CLICK]

Line in the Sand

The man stood on the beach. The beach belonged to him as much as any man could own anything. There he reached out with a stout stick, and drew a line in the sand. “No one will cross this line, this is where I will stand, and none shall be allowed to pass.” He watched … [DO NOT CLICK]

Checkmate

Checkmate “Rook to b4, checkmate,” 0T9 said, his voice a hollow noise. The holographic pieces updated, and the board gave off a chime announcing 0T9 had won. “Well done, master. Do you wish to play another game?” Elliot scowled, but nodded his head, and pressed the reset button. He had never beaten 0T9 at chess … [DO NOT CLICK]

Sysyphys

Joseph sighed as he felt his phone vibrate, just as he was setting it down on the restaurant table. With an easy motion he flipped it around, and saw Vanessa had posted a picture, Clicking the notification he glanced at the picture, and liked it. “You know there’s a new app for that,” Tommy said … [DO NOT CLICK]

You will rue what you have done

by Anonymous I was a 20 year old lad a month ago feeling gloomy from my country’s lock-downs and my idleness. It was in this dampness that I spotted a peculiar post on /lit/ where I drown lost hours by talking about books so i don’t have to read them. It was /lit/’s very own … [DO NOT CLICK]

‘Covid Blues’ by The Privy Poet

Been down with the Covid Been down fer sev’ral weeks Fer so long I been bedrid And when I breathe . . . I squeak   Corona’s made me sick Lethargy’s got me sicker I decided to take a trip ‘Ile I still got a good ticker And with twenty-twenty hindsight I should’ve reckonsidered   … [DO NOT CLICK]

The Tale of the Autist

By Alfred R. (haud ignota loquor!) I am contemplating not inditing a book, that is what I am doing right now. This is an endeavor at making the least engaging and worst experience for you. Question 1. -Why are you reading this? (labor ipse voluptas?) (e causa ignota?) Question 2. Do you optate some more … [DO NOT CLICK]

A Town by the Beach; or, Anon-Oedipus

I’ve sat down at a table with my dear friend, he doesn’t have a name. Guy I knew knew a girl who didn’t have a name either, had to pick one. He also knew a lot about this one game, town with no name. He wouldn’t stop talking about how it replicated scenes from a … [DO NOT CLICK]