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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.
Miami Woman is Two Hours Late to Her Own Funeral
Castillo’s remains were dutifully poured into an urn (cremation was provided gratis by the manner of her death), the funeral arraignments made, and her friends and family informed of its location, date, and time. Tellingly, her chronographic habits affected her loved ones even after shedding her mortal coil.
Miami Opens Its First Adult Gringo Adoption Office
he City of Miami sought to formalize the previously haphazard method of incorporating outsiders into Latino culture by opening the world’s first Gringo Adoption Agency (GAA).
I Read this Headline, Am Confused, but Open It Anyway
I wonder what the article’s about. This is rather odd. Why is it written in first person? Is there anything of substance here? Is the writer messing with me? Am I in on the joke or the subject?
Katie Miller Demolishes Little Havana to Make Way for Little Columbus, Ohio
Miller had earlier declared that, “If you come to America you should assimilate. Why do we need a Little Havana?” And she’d be damned if she didn’t put her words into action.
FL Governor Insists It’s Only Hot Because People Keep Checking Their Thermometers
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis swayed under a noonday sun outside Tallahassee’s Capitol Complex. He wore a pained expression and dark suit he’d perspired clean through.
It’s Time Millennials Killed Miami’s Political System
About 20 years ago, Boomers and Gen Xers began eyeing my generation with a mix of confusion, exasperation, and more than a hint of panic. Simultaneously, those born between 1980 and 1994 took a solid look at how their elders generally did things and decided, “No thanks, we’ll pass.”
2020 Will End in June
“Maaaaaan, fuck this year!” exclaimed Dr. Robert Elkridge, Ph.D., Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
El mismo odioso refrán
Ni sé si lo ven, si saben que están,
Cantando el mismo odioso refrán,
Their parents drowned out with a furious yell,
“Miami’s our home, and you go to hell!”
Miami Latinos’ Racism is the Height of Hypocrisy
Spic. Janitor. Fidel. Drug dealer. Communist. Rafter. Affirmative action poser. Scarface. Boat rower. Lettuce picker. Lawn service. Shark food. Spot-stealer (of a deserving non-Hispanic White). These are some of the many insults hurled at me by White Cadets after leaving Miami to attend the United State Military Academy at West Point.








