I responded to the original post, but as someone who is actually from WV, my hackles were raised when she said her uncle would bring her “ramp mushrooms”. There are ramps, which are wild onions that taste of garlic, and mushrooms, which are mushrooms. These things are not the same, and anyone from WV would know the…

The Old Gray Thing was posted word for word on Reddit a year ago. I knew I’d read it before and searched some of the text. Could be the same author, but the user names are different.

SNARK TIME

Have you ever heard of the boxcar theory of time? It’s also known as chronodisplacement and sounds a lot like what you experienced. The idea is that instead of a continual flow, time is a series of instants hooked up together like boxcars. Normally you experience things as continuous and smooth, but occasionally some…