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tested

Posted by lyn | Sep 25, 2014 | true story | 3

Yesterday afternoon I was working away on my laptop when I heard branches cracking and rustling in the bushes behind my house. I glanced out the window and saw through the chain-link fence a person crouching...

how to lose $225 in an hour

Posted by lyn | Sep 11, 2014 | true story | 2

Okay, that title’s a bit of a fudge, because in this case we had to do some prep work before the hour in question. I mean we could have lost $225 in much less than an hour by a merely sitting down at a roulette table, or...

get ur freakout on

Posted by lyn | Aug 7, 2014 | true story | 12

It started with door trim or toilet paper. I don’t quite remember which. My first instinct is that it would have been the trim, because I recall feeling sour about how abjectly terrible it looked under the glare of...

a brief history of secondary pets

Posted by lyn | Jun 24, 2014 | true story | 2

Whenever a security question asks for the name of my first pet I always always put my first dog. This makes sense because dogs are forces. They have distinct personalities. They look you in the eyes and they shed on your couch...