The Lakewood Skeptic
Exit98Navigating the tension between outward conformity and personal truth.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 19 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Where the Glass Used to Be
Feeling the glass with my fingers. Cold, smooth, a little greasy from everyone else who’s been here before me. I drag my hand across it and leave a streak without thinking. Someone will clean it. They always do.
We’re all inside. My parent...
The Group That Won’t Form
She’s crying at the kitchen table. The kids left for school 30 minutes ago. I know because I’m watching the clock, counting how long until I can reasonably leave for work without it being an escape.
Her mascara is starting to run. She says...
What They Were So Afraid Of
I’m sitting in the Temple.
Not a metaphor. An actual temple. Built from wood in the Black Rock Desert, seventy feet tall, with walls people have covered in messages to dead children, lost parents, broken relationships, questions they’ll ne...
Things That Move
Water. Flow. Sound.
I move because that’s what I do. Because that’s what things like me do.
Then - her
The world rips open and I’m not in it anymore. My body folds and the sky replaces the sea. Everything that held me disappears. The we...
The End of the Watch
There was a sailor who had been carrying a hidden treasure deep inside his chest, wrapped in salt-soaked cloth and buried beneath the deck. Recently, he discovered a way to soothe the treasure directly, as though he had found a quiet passag...
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I grew up in this community and once fully embraced its traditions, but over time, my beliefs changed. This blog is a quiet space for those navigating doubt and isolation while living here—you’re not alone.
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