GRAVEYARD SHIFT AT THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY
By Tom Cash - 1/15/26
Graveyard Shift at the Nightmare Factory is a surreal horror short story about routine, exhaustion, and the quiet terror of forgetting who you are. Told in the voice of a factory worker trapped on an endless third shift, the narrative blurs the line between industrial labor and metaphysical punishment, as familiar workspaces subtly deform into something vast, alien, and oppressive. As memory erodes and the unnamed machinery of authority looms closer, the story explores guilt, identity, and the psychological cost of avoidance, using the language of work, repetition, and fatigue to build a creeping sense of existential dread rather than relying on conventional scares.
THE SOUND OF A COUNTRY DIVIDING: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF I'M AFRAID OF AMERICANS
By Tom Cash - 1/15/26
In The Sound of a Country Dividing, the author examines David Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans not as a protest song or political screed, but as a study in paranoia, projection, and ambient fear at the dawn of the modern age. Situating the song and its iconic video within the cultural anxiety of the mid-1990s, the essay explores how distrust, misattributed intent, and inward-turned dread quietly reshape perception—both on screen and off. What emerges is a reflection on fear without an object, nationalism as belief system, and the psychological cost of living in a world where nothing feels explicitly wrong, yet nothing feels safe.
THE ADVENTURES OF VAULT-MAN - EPISODE 1: HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
By Tom Cash - 1/15/26
A Fallout 4 comedy serial that reframes the Sole Survivor as a well-meaning, wildly overconfident superhero.
The Adventures of Vault-Man – Episode 1: Humble Beginnings introduces Vault-Man, a newly awakened superhuman with no memory of his past, an unshakable belief in justice, and a deeply comic misunderstanding of how the Commonwealth actually works. Drawing heavily on superhero tropes and Fallout's bleak absurdity, the episode follows Vault-Man as he adopts a costumed identity, recruits allies, and begins his search for answers about his origins, leaving a trail of smashed criminals, baffled civilians, and earnest monologues in his wake. The humor comes less from parodying Fallout itself and more from filtering its world through the rigid, naïve moral framework of a man who desperately wants to be a comic-book hero in a place that absolutely does not need one.
A KEVIN BACON IMPERSONATOR RUINED MY PARTY AND I WANT REVENGE
By Bob Kowchanski - 1/15/26
What begins as a low-stakes holiday party spirals into an absurd, rage-soaked farce when the author's attempt to manifest celebrity energy backfires spectacularly. Fueled by nostalgia, questionable life hacks, chemical optimism, and deeply held personal rules about snack ownership, the night unravels into mistaken identity, wounded pride, friendship stress tests, and a catastrophic failure of bodily trust.
FLIP THE SCRIPT - PECK (1986)
By Tom Cash - 1/15/26
In this installment of Flip the Script, the familiar events of Ghostbusters are reframed as a grounded workplace drama centered on oversight, accountability, and institutional responsibility. By repositioning Walter Peck as a diligent civil servant rather than a punchline antagonist, the piece interrogates how charisma, narrative framing, and cultural momentum shape our sympathies. What emerges is not a parody, but a sober reconsideration of how authority, regulation, and public spectacle collide, and how easily competence can be recast as villainy when it threatens the protagonists of a beloved myth.