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Most recently published stories in Humans.
The Weight of Maybe. Content Warning.
Trigger Warning: Sexual coercion and emotional manipulation Authors Note: This piece explores the confusion, mental conflict, and questioning that can follow experiences of coercive intimacy, a lack of clarity that often lingers long after an experience ends. If you relate to the themes present in this piece, you are not alone.
By Grace Ryderabout 17 hours ago in Humans
She was not born a woman. AI-Generated.
She had been leaving herself for so long that she had forgotten the exact moment it began. Perhaps it was the morning her mother handed her a dress she had not chosen and called it pretty, and she had nodded because the dress was pretty, and because the nod was easier than the conversation, and because she was seven years old and already understood, without anyone having explained it, that some truths are better kept interior. Or perhaps it was later, in a classroom where she knew the answer and raised her hand and the teacher looked past her to the boy behind her who did not know it, and she lowered her hand slowly, the knowledge still warm inside her fist, and tucked it somewhere quiet inside herself where it would be safe. Or perhaps there was no single moment at all. Perhaps it was the accumulation of mornings, of lowered hands, of nodded heads, of the slow patient work of making herself palatable to a world that had very specific ideas about the dimensions a woman should occupy.
By Chic X Charm about 17 hours ago in Humans
Rico's Bounce
Rico knows the discharge coordinator's voice before she rounds the corner. Third floor, east wing, room 314. Seven days in. The manila folder under her arm holds his aftercare plan—a photocopy of a photocopy, edges soft from being filed and refiled. She'll sit in the blue chair by the window, the one with the torn vinyl armrest, and she'll ask how he's feeling.
By R. Antonio Mattaabout 18 hours ago in Humans
Dismantling the Torment Nexus 2.27.26. Content Warning.
“The whole system is fucked, from the ground up to the top down” is not a novel assessement of our current situation. Dutifully, I must couch such an observation with, if not solutions, at least a plea to better meta-analyze our society’s unfolding situation with greater rigor. I believe, considering the state of things around the world, we must conduct a postmortem on the status quo. All the tenets of progress we’ve ever been taught have led us to believe in a brighter, more hopeful future, yet upon closer examination it may seem more a deliberately orchestrated conspiracy than a series of unfortunate events.
By J. Otis Haasabout 18 hours ago in Humans
Pending
Pending… Please Hold… There is no department officially responsible for waiting, yet it governs nearly everything. No one votes for it. No one studies it in school. No child says they want to grow up and participate in it. Still, waiting organizes modern life more reliably than law or tradition. It distributes attention, determines access, and quietly decides whose time matters.
By shallon gregersonabout 19 hours ago in Humans
The Crumbling of American Education
For twenty years, I have dedicated my life to a system where each year a piece of it snaps off. What began as cracks, evolved into falling chucks. What caused it? Many people believe the overuse of computers in school is the cause, but I believe the cracks began in 2002 when a group of lawmakers with no experience in the public school system crafted and put into law a bill which became the first slash to our education system titled: “No Child Left Behind.”
By Iris Harrisabout 19 hours ago in Humans
A Letter to Myself From One Year Ago. AI-Generated.
Dear you from last year, I'm writing this from a future that's closer than you think. It's only been twelve months, but you're going to be surprised by how much that changes things. Not dramatically. Not in a movie kind of way. Just quietly, in the ways that actually matter.
By Zeyrox Xen0about 19 hours ago in Humans
Facebook is Dead. Top Story - February 2026.
Or at least it feels like it's dead, doesn’t it? Any system that is not maintained and improved but simply left to its own devices, will enter a stage of entropy (natural, slow decay, degradation, and dilapidation) and eventually die.
By Lana V Lynxabout 19 hours ago in Humans
