Pete Stevens

Approaching middle life, I find myself in a quandary of sorts. Over the past twenty years, my level of wealth has quietly crept up and overtaken the progression of my social class. I've got beer tastes and a champagne budget.

The ongoing emergency at Twitter has made a lot of us take a serious look at social media. After a lot of debate here at Pi Towers, we’ve now spun up our own Mastodon instance. The best thing about it? It’s running on a Raspberry Pi 4 hosted at Mythic Beasts. Last time we talked about Mastodon, we told you why we were doing it. Today’s post talks about how you can join us. You can join us on Mastodon by creating an account with one of the many public Mastodon service providers at the Mastodon website.

Pete Stevens’s “Riders” is one of three winners of the 2021 CRAFT Flash Fiction Contest, judged by Robert Lopez. I was inside that ambulance with the other casualties of life while the narrator of “Riders” took all of us on an unforgettable journey. This piece makes you laugh and cringe and feel, and what else is there? When one of the characters, a man maybe named Gilligan says, “There’s a lot of pain over there,” we feel it all the way into our bones.