This happened over ten years ago, back when I went to the Jukai—the Sea of Trees, infamous as a suicide hotspot. My buddy B and I were losers with no dreams or aspirations. All we did was gamble and drown ourselves in cheap booze. On the first day of a holiday weekend that happened to line up for bo…
It's raining again today. It's rainy season, so the downpour has been relentless for days now. According to today's news, our area is about to be hit with warning-level heavy rainfall. My senior colle…
This happened back when I was in upper elementary school. One afternoon during class, I was sitting by the window, half-listening to a boring history lesson while staring blankly out at the schoolyard…
*Note: This is a scary story about ChatGPT that I had ChatGPT write for me. ### Read 2:17 a.m. Every time I hit a wall at work, I turned to ChatGPT. Proposal drafts, emails, code, life advice—before I…
This is a story about something that actually happened to me when I was in about the first grade. My parents had divorced, and I was living in an apartment complex with my mother. Since the complex wa…
