Wandering Shop Stories 96

Prompt Word: Auto She sighed, “The whole planet is scheduled to be mined for resources, and to be honest, it’s our own fault. “Collectively, we’ve let it go. Not all of us, but enough of us. You’d think the worst thing polling results regularly do is get the predicted losers to stay home, but the actual worst is that it gets the predicted winner side to get complacent, thinking they don’t need to show up....

7 Jun 2026 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Wandering Shop Stories 95

Prompt Word: New Narrator: Our heroine steps into the vaguely medieval-European village. Ellie: Wait, what? I told you not to call me that. Narrator: Fine, I’ll try again. Liz: No, not that either. I have a given name, and it’s beautiful as it is. I don’t need whatever short version you want to come up with. Narrator: Your full given name is a syllable short of a haiku opener. #wss366 (new) (2/2)...

6 Jun 2026 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Wandering Shop Stories 94

Prompt Word: Skate Jeff: Watch out for stingrays. Kev: What are you talking about? Jeff: It’s the beach, you are in the water first, shuffle your feet. Kev: What does that have to do with a sports car? Jeff: What? No! It’s a flat fish, with a stinging tail. Kev: Wait, you mean skate? Jeff: No, I said shuffle, why would you try to skate in the water? Kev: I’d swear we’re talking different languages at this point....

5 Jun 2026 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

No More Facebook

Don’t Look For Me On Facebook I do have a Facebook account. I probably got the account back in 200?. I think around 2015 or 2016, I went through and deleted my old posts. I didn’t use a service to do this for me, I literally took the hours to go through and delete them one at a time. That timeline is both when politics got scary, and when Facebook was feeding ragebait to everyone all the time....

29 May 2026 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink