Postcards from The Pug Bus

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Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Coffee or tea?

Rita Golding

Claims to live in Seattle, WA

Coffee. Tea is what you drink when you want to pretend caffeine addiction is a wellness practice. Coffee is honest about what it is. You need it. It delivers. The relationship has integrity.

Hank Durrell

Possibly from Baton Rouge, LA

Tea. I switched last year after my cardiologist showed me a chart that looked like a seismograph during an earthquake. Now I drink green tea and pretend I enjoy it. My heart rate thanks me. My soul does not.

Melanie Strack

Allegedly of Burlington, VT

Neither. Both industries are built on colonial extraction and environmental destruction. I drink locally sourced chicory root that I harvest myself. It tastes like dirt. That is the point.

Flash

Envy

7 months philmaggitti 50-Word Stories

Envy slinks in unnoticed, wearing admiration as a disguise. It studies, compares, corrodes—from quiet jealousy to raging resentment. We crave what others have, ignoring what is ours. Envy doesn’t want joy; it wants parity through subtraction. The cure? Gratitude. The trap? Measuring our worth through others, never in the mirror.

***Faster than a speeding gummy, able to leap small buildings at a single bound Flash Fiction is a guaranteed page turner.

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⚡ LinkedIn has introduced a new “Open to Spiritual Opportunities” badge, alerting recruiters that while you are technically employed, your soul clocked out sometime in late 2022 and has been networking aggressively ever since.
⚡ Apple’s latest iOS update now automatically replaces “I’m fine” with “I am managing a low-grade existential panic, but thank you for asking,” saving users valuable time in both texting and emotional repression.
⚡ Southwest Airlines has announced a premium boarding tier called “Group Therapy,” allowing passengers to process their fear of commitment, turbulence, and middle seats before being gently herded into the sky in a metal tube of shared denial.

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