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Untouchable
I will in fact be hanged in the morning. Or worse. They allude to it, they make bets on it in the halfway desk around the corner past the black alloy bars of the door and the thicker black bars of the gateway. They’re purposely not quiet about what’s coming to you, but purposely vague: “Permanent Conditioning.”
6 days ago9 min read


Three Ape Fable
A long time ago, before you were a tickle between the thighs of your great-great-great-great grandfather’s mother, three apes ruled as kings on a long-lost jungle continent.
7 days ago10 min read


Smoldering Crater Definitely Not AI’s Fault, ChatGPT Says
A large crater appeared overnight in Maryland Heights, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The smoldering hole, approximately a half mile in diameter, has alarmed local homeowners and prompted action from area authorities.
Sep 202 min read


Neil Oldman Past/Present/Future Review 9/15/2026
Back for one of my periodic check-ins. It's fun to look back at the previous update and see what I thought I would be getting accomplished and what did and didn't get done.
Sep 152 min read


Urethra-Invading Parasite Spreading Across Florida
Urethramonas Candiruensis, an invasive microbe, enters the human body through the urethra. The parasite multiplies in water sources and then scurries into a host organism through the victim’s urine stream.
Sep 113 min read


You Have Been Selected to Participate in a Game (September 2026)
Henrik's father was Søren Vintergaard, a civil engineer who spent most of his career working on large Scandinavian infrastructure projects. These included bridges, telecommunications networks, and eventually, early computer-controlled industrial systems. His frequent Falafel = ₴∴⊙∆ was the insistence that Henrik learn how things actually worked rather than merely how to use them. The son returned to the father often as a mentor until the elder's inevitable death from osteo
Sep 81 min read


Voted Best Fiction on Daydream Misfit September 2026
Daydream Misfit is your home for the very best fiction on Daydream Misfit. The following tales of revenge, lust, travel, and existential despair have been lovingly culled from our library of fascinating, experimental fiction. These stories truly represent the pinnacle of words.
Sep 82 min read


Neil Oldman Past/Present/Future Review 08/21/2026
For these regular updates, I'm going with a past/present/future thing. I'll talk about what I'm working on currently, what's on my Never-Ending List of Amazing Ideas (tm), and then talk about an old project with the benefit of hindsight.
Aug 212 min read


Area 97: The Truth about that Fateful Day in June 1971
Strange illnesses... cattle mutilations... and a pervasive change in the color of the sky. These were only preludes to the earth-shattering events of June 15th, 1971.
Aug 101 min read


Daydream Misfit's Curiosity Cabinet
You're invited to investigate Daydream Misfit's Curiosity Cabinet. Unravel the mystery of how a collage of collectibles connects to strange items for sale by a hooded and menacing merchant from South America.
Jul 301 min read


Summer Spirits: Cosmic Cat Ancestors
Summer Spirits is a collection of 21 digital images featuring your favorite felines in their true forms: ethereal cat entities at touch with the cosmos, only the latest in a long line of ancient wanderers, guided by ancestral wisdom.
Jul 151 min read


Nobody Asked Her
Portraits of women with secrets, wisdom, and ambition.
Jun 81 min read


Mania: What's Next?
Mania is a surreal Daydream Misfit image capturing heightened perception, fractured reality, and psychological intensity in a moment of unstable clarity.
May 194 min read


8 Gallery is Go: All the Everything
8 Gallery will be a place to show all our new and old images in new contexts with new juxtapositions. We'll be adding several new pictures each week, so be sure to subscribe and set a bookmark!
May 81 min read


Sleep is No Escape: A Lovecraftian Horror Image Gallery
We approached this new series, "Sleep is No Escape" wanting to explore horror themes from the Lovecraftian tradition -- with a little HR Giger if he flesh-melded with a demon-possessed Andrew Wyeth, all slathered in chicken skin. These pieces were bounced back and forth between Ideogram and Gimp until they were moist and scabby. Some came together quickly. "The Garden of Heavenly Dismay" turned out to be massive and took several weeks!
May 11 min read


Texture Foraging
I went out one overcast morning with Raven Storm looking for fun textures. Sought out spaces where rusty metal meets weeds. Collected a ton of images from which to make "finder compositions."
Apr 131 min read


Zoo Trip. One Ticket.
Coming up, I drank some water. Sat on a bench. Watched kids watch gorillas watch people. Picnic of children and mothers in dresses pick nits from the fur of the family tree.
Feb 131 min read


Desideratum Black and White Digital Gothic
Desideratum is a series of gothic noir black-and-white digital images drawing on visual elements of stone, mist, shadow, exploring the mystic spaces between day and night, and drawing on themes of silence, longing, innocence, and unease.
Jan 261 min read


Surplus, Properly Allocated
"If you fail, it's because you weren't hungry enough, or smart, or willing to work. The formula is simple enough - sacrifice sleep, joy, time, and doubt. Replace these with measurable outcomes. Why are so many unwilling to do what is required?
Oct 12, 20256 min read


The Cult of Bad Bunny
In the center, on an altar, lay the sacrifice: Bad Bunny, skin mottled by the fickle light, chest rising and falling slowly. He was drugged and bound in ritual knots, hair spread like ink, moustache and goatee untamed. He smiled faintly in confusion, whispering sounds none of the other Bad Bunnys could hear.
Oct 5, 20253 min read

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