Luke O'Neil

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I've known these people all my life

They are selling him his own anger

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For us it felt like a year

And now we are all safer

It seemed like something that would make him happy

Maybe all those kids have limited value

Having had enough of it all

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The paper had life to live

The reader response to this piece from the other day was so strong (like weirdly wildly strong) that I decided to take it out from behind the paywall for a couple days. Apparently it's "one of the good ones." While I do need to make money through subscriptions (hint) even

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We don't want them anywhere

You'll need to be a paid subscriber to read today's piece in full. Thank you for being here either way. Police departments in Minnesota are withdrawing officers from schools in protest of a new law that says they can no longer "physically restrain students in a way that impacts their

Do I contradict myself?

Today I'm going to talk about whether or not it's ok to take any joy in watching Mr. "I Love Doing Crimes and Getting Away With It" not entirely get away with it for once. Real quick before that though I posted this new-ish short story by me the other

Now and at the hour of our death

I sent this short story out to paid subscribers a few months ago but I'm taking it out from behind the paywall for a while today. Subscribe if you want to get every piece as they come out. It doesn't appear in my book A Creature Wanting Form but probably

Whatever the last joke is going to be

Now the entire thing is built out of highway sharks

The aesthetic injury they experience

No precedent just spite

The greatest American rock band

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There is no constitutional right to adequate medical care

The latest egregious application of qualified immunity

Where the Old Mouth used to be

Taking this new short story out from behind the paywall for a day or two. This one does not appear in my new book A Creature Wanting Form but it could have! Subscribe now to get every issue of Hell World in your email and access to all of the

Myths can't live forever

What, if anything, will remain of Israeli democracy?

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Should we talk about the weather?

Should we talk about the government?

The Fury of Sinéad O'Connor

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

Everything is gonna be perfect from that point going forward

I never really believed writer's block was a real thing before. I thought it was some made up shit like Havana Syndrome where it just meant the guy was hungover too much and was trying to blame something or someone else. But now I have it for the first time

A brief pocket of borrowed joy

This story appears in my book A Creature Wanting Form available now. An old friend I haven’t seen in some years and certainly not since any of us learned the word Covid was visiting at the home of a second friend nearby. Come by he said and I said

The world has turned and left me here

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The more people join us the more we’ll be able to get done

For now we have to get pretty creative and experimental in our approach to organizing

It is more quiet than I’ve ever heard it

There’s no traffic because there are no roads

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The way their hands could mutate the strings

RIP Rick Froberg

It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door

Drive safe

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The willingness to allow certain people to die

It’s a horrifying and disgusting contrast

Instead it all just goes in the one direction

That’s pretty much one of the main things men have to be fucked up about