My Semi-Annual or Maybe BiWeekly or Daily Food Drive
Half off for a year? Count you in!
Well, hello there. This is where I make my bi-WheneverTheHellIFeelLikeIt attempt to extract as much money from you as humanly possible.
All new subscribers are being offered a half-off special, so my current subscribers should see this deal, too. It’s just a temporary thing to try to collect a few more pennies to pay my significantly expanded medical staff, who recently rescued me from near-certain death (I kid not, but won’t go into details here, even though, in the long run, I’m not too proud to whine about it at a future date).
Here’s a look at the different kinds of stuff you can find here on Ruminato to justify your support:
You can find unique takes on American politics.
For example, the threat to American youth caused by exposure to the lunacy that is Trump:
Or the death of the Republican Party:
And the end of politics:
How about a simple DEI primer for white people?
Or America joining a new world authoritarian Axis:
If political humor is your thing, you’ll also find that here:
I probably could have picked a better doppelganger than Brad Pitt, since he’s in trouble now, too, but if I pick some other dude, he’ll be in the news a week from now, so what’s the point?
You can even discover Moses’ rules of Waffle House fighting on Ruminato. Where else can you find that?
Not funny at all, but did you know that Florida is dying?
Some of my stuff appeared on Medium before I had 1.2K subscribers here (thank you!). For example, this story, which exposed Musk for who he is back in September (free Medium friend link):
There’s a lot more here. Just click or tap the Ruminato Politics link at the top of every Ruminato page.
Fiction
If fiction is your thing, there’s a ton of that, too. Fiction is dear to me, partly because my characters tend to take over the storyline sometimes. One of them even visited me at a Waffle House. No lie:
I guess I should spend some of my medical bill money on some good psychiatric services, but then, where would my characters go? They need a good home, too.
Much of the fiction I write is relevant to our current condition, such as this story about an Amber Alert type of message from the government that orders everyone to kill themselves within 30 minutes:
There are stories with futuristic looks at mass incarceration:
And a Valentine's Day noir vampire love story based on one of my favorite "A Psalm of Vampires" characters:
Speaking of Psalm of Vampires, you can find the entire novel serialized here on Ruminato, beginning with Chapter One:
Maybe dolphin messiahs are more your thing:
Or the story of a man and his CRISPR past:
I’ll experiment a little on Ruminato, too, with stuff that may never go beyond an initial partial draft:
Much of my fiction writing has hidden meaning and Easter eggs, such as this short story about a man who works for the government to track down embedded brain bots carrying rogue AI conversation software:
I’ve also been working on a novel for more than three years called Restive Souls, an alternative history novel in which slavery is abolished immediately following the failed Revolutionary War (called the Colonial Rebellion in this alternative universe). You’ll find samples here, which will sometimes disappear automagically.
This story is tangentially related to Restive Souls:
Last night I dropped a chapter from Restive Souls, an alternative history novel that’s been in development for about three years. It’s about an African Empire that rises on the Carolina Coast:
You may be seeing more sample chapters of Restive Souls, depending on publication status. If you’re a paid subscriber, you’ll get access to the second book of Restive Souls and a sequel to MagicLand.
Speaking of MagicLand, you can find a whole bunch of stories related to my debut novel here:
https://www.ruminato.com/s/magicland
Become an Endowment member
If you’re feeling generous about your support of the arts and the kind of fiction writing you see here, consider becoming an Endowment member. Yep, it’s expensive, but it’s also half off now, too.
This helps me market my fiction so that more eyeballs see it. It also might help pay for my next MRI, since America is still in the stone age when it comes to healthcare costs. Everybody give me a “Grrrrr!”
Alternatively, if you have a rich crazy uncle who is drunk on Trump, talk him into a Ruminato endowment as a form of punishment. It’ll make you feel giddy for weeks.
Thanks for reading! I appreciate your readership, whether through paid, free, or gift subscriptions, or just casual browsing from the interwebs.
