modern parable

  • Barstool Royalty

    There is a throne no respectable person wants. It isn’t made of gold. It isn’t earned. It isn’t admired. It’s bolted to the floor of a bar. And every night someone climbs onto it believing they’ve become royalty. Nobody likes a bad drunk who thinks they’re a good one. Matter of fact… Nobody likes a…

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  • There is a kingdom that does not appear on google maps. No passport will get you there. No road sign points in its direction. You don’t accidentally wander into it. You build it. Brick by brick. Sentence by sentence. Lie by lie. The people who lived there called it truth. Everyone else simply called it…

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  • Horse of a Different Color

    There are hundreds of versions of you out there—some shining, some cracked,some filtered through the lens of people who never really knew you.Some carry mercy, others carry knives.And some are just echoes caught between what you wereand what you almost became. Somewhere out there,you’re living the life you wanted.The one you earned.The one that got…

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  • It’s never “duck.”Autocorrect gets it wrong every time—but maybe it’s right in spirit.Because sometimes all you can dois scream “duck!”and hope you’re low enough when life swings. You ever notice how the Joneses never asked for the job?The world made them saints of suburbia,heroes of hustle,the holy grail of comparison.But no one ever asked if…

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