The Vanishing Art of Self-Respect Imagine living in a country where one feels compelled to wear their jammies and slippers in public. That, apparently, is where America now finds itself—so much so that the U.S. Transportation Secretary has publicly pleaded with travelers to stop shuffling into airports dressed for naptime.Continue Reading
America has always been a generous nation, and rightly so. A wealthy republic with a vast economy ought to have a social safety net that protects its vulnerable. But generosity without vigilance is an open invitation to abuse—and nowhere is this more painfully obvious than in the unfolding welfare-fraud scandals in Minnesota.Continue Reading
The Kingdom’s thriving musical culture has long been a source of communal pride, but the recent pre-festival rehearsal season has stretched public patience — and tendons — thin. Physicians report a widespread and mildly exasperating condition now known as Ambient Lute Fatigue (ALF).Continue Reading
According to Warden-Captain Hestrel Vaughn, the raid began shortly after the eleventh bell. A team of three men slipped through a gap in the timber-yard fence and began sawing through stored cedar logs by lantern-light, intending to cut them into portable sections before carting them out by mule. Their plan failed when the wardens—who had increased patrols following rumors of illicit woodcutting—spotted the glow through the trees.Continue Reading
Employment opportunities abound across the Kingdom of Eyehasseen. Apply in person unless otherwise noted. References from reputable citizens preferred. Continue Reading
The Grand Canal of Inverness has not seen such thunder and triumph since the founding of the sport itself. After a week of speculation, rivalry, and smoke-filled duels, the Westmere Wharf Hounds have once again claimed the Trident of the Waters, defeating the Thornwold Mist Cutters in a championship that will be sung about in taverns for a generation.Continue Reading
You don’t need to spend long studying geopolitics to see what’s happening. Countries all over the world — left, right, monarchies, coalitions, technocracies, and everything in between — enforce their borders. Quietly. Consistently. Without apology. They do it not because they are cruel, but because it is the bare minimum required for sovereignty.Continue Reading
Goose-Induced Panic Strain – GIPS, according to the Ministry’s press briefing, arises when an unsuspecting person encounters one of the Kingdom’s notoriously territorial waterfowl and reacts with an instinctive, full-bodied spasm of alarm. Symptoms include spontaneous sprinting, awkward shouting, flailing of shopping baskets, and declarations such as “I didn’t bring bread! Why do you assume I brought bread?”Continue Reading
Dawn broke red over Eastreach Bay yesterday—not from the sun alone, but from flames leaping across the deck of the Mariner’s Gift, a medium-class merchant vessel bound for the capital with a hold full of wool bales, powdered dyes, and imported spices.Continue Reading
Weeks of unseasonable storms battered Hewarth’s eastern coastline, destroying fishing villages, flooding croplands, and leaving entire families without shelter or food. Only when the storm season finally broke did the scale of the devastation become fully known.Continue Reading