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I stopped blaming other people for my problems

Brookline · Brookline

I stopped blaming other people for my problems

Last night I had a great time chatting with Rax King about her new book Sloppy Or: Doing It All Wrong for a lovely crowd at the Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA. I hadn't been over that way in years but it was a very nostalgic evening for Michelle and I walking around the neighborhood we spent so much time in when we were young. Our first date was actually at the Coolidge Corner theater to see Todd Solondz' Storytelling which was not a parti…Read Article

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When will my reflection show who I am inside?

This piece was sent out as part of today's full Hell World newsletter. Read the rest here including a remembrance of the life and work of Ozzy Osbourne.Mama I’m Coming HomeTwo weeks ago I was sitting in the very spot where I sit now crying my eyes out. Not exactly out of the ordinary for me but nevertheless. M. asked what was wrong and I said I was watching Ozzy sing Crazy Train. Did he die she said and IWelcome to Hell WorldLuke O’NeilAs you kn…Astoria, Oregon · Astoria Read Article

Hillsborough woman conned out of $15K after AI clones daughter’s voice

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A Hillsborough County woman is warning others after falling victim to an elaborate AI-powered scheme that used cloned audio of her daughter’s voice to demand thousands of dollars in fake bond money.Cybercrimes · Florida See the Story

The day the country was dismantled was so perfect

Thank you as always for reading. You'll need to be a paid subscriber to read today's piece in full. If you missed it my new book is available for pre-order now. Don't worry I will only mention it 5,000 more times. The day the country was dismantled was so perfect. Not the dismantling part obviously but everything else about it. High seventies and dry and breezy on the north shore of Massachusetts. The brine of the sea air. We probably wouldn’t h…Newburyport · Newburyport Read Article

How safe we all are now

Today's main thing is about my recent trip to visit family in the suburbs of Atlanta. Did I manage to somehow shut the fuck up the whole time? Did I have an existential crisis in the airport? Well let's find out down below. I may have mentioned that my next book is available for pre-order! I spent so much time working on this thing that I feel a sort of emptiness inside of me now that it is no longer mine to worry about. The writing of it anyway…Atlanta, Georgia · Atlanta Read Article

My new book! 'We Had It Coming'

A haunting yet darkly humorous exploration of a world teetering on the edge of collapse.Read Article

There are more of us than there are of them

If you like what you read here please consider supporting Hell World with a subscription. 25% off one year!!I went looking for something to feel good about. I don't need to tell you that there's not much left in stock of late. On Saturday morning things felt particularly grim even for this moment with the news that two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses had been shot overnight in their homes in what appears to be a targeted political as…Minnesota · Minnesota Read Article

My Homies Doing the Right Thing

By Ernie McCray / June 11, 2025 So proud of my old neighbors, Golden Hill/South Park folks, standing up to Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons who, out of the blue, in a style much like a military platoon, descended on workers at Buona Forchetta, one of the hood’s fine eating places,Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Los Angeles See the Story

Who counts as a person?

I had four new short pieces go up at Flaming Hydra yesterday. Paid Hell World subscribers can read one of them in here down below. Here's a fifth bonus one for you nice people. What the window showed themThe hunger Well we just got back from stringing up our weakest friend in the middle of the town square for the vampires to feast on overnight. No one liked the doing of it when it came to actually doing it I’ll admit that. But the past is theFla…United States · United States Read Article