Join us today! — Summary Inspired by The Button from Reddit, this publication will stay open as long as we have one story to publish every 24 hours. If we don’t receive a new story in time, we will close the publication. Help us stay alive; submit your article today! More details This publication is a work…

Ever wonder what sets the wheels of creativity in motion? — Do you have a quirky ritual or a favorite activity that jumpstarts your imaginative juices? We all have our little idiosyncrasies that act as the secret sauce for our creative mojo. Think about that classic flick, "Dead Poets Society." If you haven't caught it yet, seriously, give it a whirl…

Another one of those words we don’t need — Should is one of the least motivating things you can say to yourself or to anyone else. It implies you must always meet all expectations–either by others, societal norms, or yourself. That kind of feeling isn’t motivating, it’s overwhelming. I get to decide things for myself. If I have to…

Machines can’t see what monsters they write — A follow-up to a recent experiment in which Chat GPT was asked to write a story, and succeeded… in proving its lack of humanity. Machines Write Monsters Because they can’t see humanitymedium.com Prompted to write a version of my own story set during the Warsaw Uprising, Chat GPT wrote Echoes of Resilience: A Beacon of Hope in Warsaw…

Sharing special moments helps your reader to connect to your story — Many moments fill a human life and those are the moments we want to capture in our stories. Those special moments have a positive influence on our writing, even when we write about negative things. Writing about moments grabbed from life makes our writing more authentic. There are ways to…

Can I outrun it tonight? — “You again.” It was calm before the storm. The moment I’d prematurely celebrated my victory over you. My methods were working, and a mindset formed. When my sinuses inflamed, I blamed it on the cold of setting dusk. It was unseasonal, with moisture being at an all-time low. Then there…

And on the Eighth day, Man created Beer. Everything was graffiti art I walked in and I started to shart Because I was in a new city, a new place Escaping yes, to my own true pace On the TV the Simpsons played The room dark with weird characters strayed A still…

I don’t even know why, but here’s how I can tell — In a previous story published here on Dead or Alive, I reported that I feared I might cease to exist. I thought I was at existential risk on August 29 for reasons, but here’s the thing. I did not cease to exist. This is great. A little disappointing, the way…

Yes. I totally stole the title from BuzzFeed. I find them too obvious, but they work (apparently). — Dead or Alive is a temporary publication that publishes one article a day until we can’t because we didn’t receive any submissions. Or, in the other words of one of our writers, Dead or Alive is: “I like this little rag of yours. It’s more than performance art. There’s something…