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Only in Miami Stories from The Miami Creation Myth
Florida Rising Chapter 26
Monica’s alarm woke her the same way she always transitioned into consciousness: violently, with a flurry of arms, legs, and sheets all fueled by panic.
Florida Rising Chapter 25
Florida Governor Rhonda Santos was 30,000 feet above Central Florida on a private jet, her hands gripping her head in disbelief.
Florida Rising Chapter 25
“ANTIFA!” yelled the Guardsman before emptying an entire magazine into the menacing shadow.
Florida Rising Chapter 23
Just one of Carlos’ two guest rooms was larger than Cynthia’s entire apartment. The bathroom was larger than her bedroom.
Florida Rising Chapter 22
Carlos shook his head. This was far too much for a Saturday afternoon. It was about to get far worse.
Florida Rising Chapter 21
"The train is about to approach a turn," said bluebunny. "That’s when you’re going to jump out.”
Florida Rising Chapter 20
Instead of public bullet trains, Floridians purchases outrageously expensive tickets to travel the country’s killing-est locomotive from South to Central Florida.
Florida Rising Chapter 19
Looking around the stage, Cynthia was certain she was the only one who hadn’t had any work done.
Florida Rising Chapter 18
Shrieking tires echoed up and down the hall while a corner DJ booth pumped Danish electro-funk into the cavernous space.
Florida Rising Chapter 17
Good morning, partisan populists, patriarchs, and pussy pounders, and welcome to the Panhandle Patriot Podcast!
Florida Rising Chapter 16
Cynthia awoke to 238 missed emails, 186 missed calls, and 502 missed text messages.
Florida Rising Chapter 15
Governor Santos had lined up the entire, eight-man Thing squad shoulder to shoulder against the back wall of her office.
Florida Rising Chapter 14
Monica Castellanos lived in a van parked in an Atlanta campground.
Florida Rising Chapter 13
Cynthia spent 20 minutes convincing a pair of police officers that, no, she wasn’t the victim of an attempted murder.
Florida Rising Chapter 12
400 miles back south, a woman in a Midtown Miami apartment gave a celebratory yell so loud that three different neighbors called the cops.
Florida Rising Chapter 11
The following morning, Cynthia found a new folder on her desktop.
Florida Rising Chapter 10
A woman shifted on the crinkly paper pulled across the examination couch, a perturbed look on her face, staring at the “Beware of Eye Syphilis” poster.
Florida Rising Chapter 9
Carlos sidestepped to the left, so Cynthia sidestepped to the left. He shifted back to the right and she mirrored his move. She gave him a nervous smile.
Florida Rising Chapter 8
By the time Carlos powerwalked offstage, head down, ramrod in his pants swaying left and right with each step, the crowd was in a near-mutinous clamor.
Florida Rising Chapter 7
By the time Carlos powerwalked offstage, head down, ramrod in his pants swaying left and right with each step, the crowd was in a near-mutinous clamor.
Florida Rising Chapter 6
Daniel Cypress was having a rough morning.
Florida Rising Chapter 5
Florida Governor Rhonda Santos sat in her mahogany paneled office behind a monolithic block of wood consciously modeled off the presidential Resolute Desk.
Florida Rising Chapter 4
Florida Governor Rhonda Santos sat in her mahogany paneled office behind a monolithic block of wood consciously modeled off the presidential Resolute Desk.
Florida Rising Chapter 3
The ground cantankerously growled, then it groused, then it grumbled, and then, after several hours of geologic griping, it finally shook for 30 seconds.
Florida Rising Chapter 2
Despite innumerable Brooklynites’ assertions that Miami’s recorded history began in 2022 when it acquired a cybertronic bull statue used to shill crypto scams, Seabreeze Ridge’s story—like the rest of South Florida’s—dated back thousands of years.
The End of The Miami Creation Myth
After 38,485 pounds of trash, three years as an entrepreneur, and eight years working on The Miami Creation Myth, I’m freaking tired!
Miami Denies Asylum to New Yorkers Fleeing Socialism
Many were rounded up and placed in the Four Seasons, where they endured appalling conditions such as spring mattresses and a self-serve continental breakfast.
Navy Blows Up Miami Influencer Boat Carrying Three Grams of Cocaine
The USS Lyndon B. Johnson launched a Tomahawk cruise missile that sank a 45-foot yacht anchored just off Downtown Miami.
MDC Donates Entire Campus for Trump Library
Given Trump’s infamous aversion to reading, all the volumes in the library’s 15-acre campus will be coloring books or 1980s Playboy foldouts.
Trump Announces Cafecito Causes Impotence
The sheer unbridled cognitive dissonance made a dozen men around a Miami ventanita collapse into frothing comas.
Trump Turned America into Venezuela
The Vatican officially announced that San Gibin would be canonized as the patron saint of gluttons, food comas, and heartburn.
Latinos Celebrate San Gibin Feast Day
The Vatican officially announced that San Gibin would be canonized as the patron saint of gluttons, food comas, and heartburn.
My Complicated Experience with Racism at West Point
It would be easy to claim that West Point was simply an intolerant environment that forced me out because I failed to conform. But doing so would paint an incomplete portrait.
Communitis Pandemic Devastates Miam
“They’re under the bed! They’re under the bed!” yelled Alejandro Gomez. The middle-aged Cuban-American man rocked his gurney so violently that three burly nurses had to restrain him.
Gov. Ron DeSantis Opens Florida’s Nuclear Waste Sites to Partygoers
“I’m one with the universe!” yelled DeSantis, arms and face to the sky as a truly banging remix of Endor’s “Sexiest Man in Jamaica” rocked the crowd.
Not Everything You Dislike Is Communist
This piece is directed to those who believe demands for racial justice, equal pay, climate action, LQBTQ rights, voting access, government accountability, immigration reform, and addressing other systemic societal ills are inherently communist.
COVID Vector Visits Miami
A virulent COVID vector arrived in Miami this morning to yell at people in enclosed spaces.
I Have a Business Admin Degree from Barry and Here’s Why Wearing a Mask is Stupid
Everyone who dies from COVID is old, and brown, and socialist, and there’s no way MY parents get it because they’re CUBAN and vote REPUBLICAN.
Miami-Dade County Completes Invisible Metrorail to Miami Beach
The Transparent Line will connect to Metrorail’s Ethereal Line, which runs from Brickell to FIU, and the Intangible Line uniting Downtown Miami with Fort Lauderdale.








