BLOG: Update On More Bad Stories

My goal was to release More Bad Stories and the Essential Bad Thoughts T-Shirt on July 6th, 2025. It wasn't a hard date just a goal that I missed. I am hard at work on my second edit and now, the release date is to be determined. This is necessary because I have reworked a few of the short stories specifically, The New Wasteland, The Final Hour of Eeffrey Jpstein, and Dr. Aauci Goes to Jail. I added more details about the characters and I believe, greatly enhanced and developed the plots. The first drafts were rough and many of those stories I had not looked at in three or four years.

I am building more layers to each of my stories but the recent news cycle dominated by Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein influenced a funny as fuck addendum to, The Final Hour of Eeffrey Jpstein. The unsigned FBI memo released on July 6th and all of the events surrounding it and what may be going through each of the players' heads is enticingly feral, it's fertile ground for me to implant my own thoughts on the matter. I am glad I did not settle on that date because the new "revelations" or lack thereof are just too alluring and my creativity could not ignore it.

The scandal is on-going so I will not hold up the story until they conclude (there will not be a concrete conclusion, there will not be justice, there was never going to be in this case) but what an awful gift to be given. That's just one of the ways I have enhanced the story. I have done similar things to all seven of the works.

For Dr. Aauci Goes to Jail, one of the minimal additions is I accounted for the ages of the fugitives, their ailments, and disabilities. It makes their attempted capture more blunderous (blunderous is a word that I have used forever and I will bring back, there will no longer be a red line under the word blunderous if I can help it). As an English scholar I use archaic words all of the time because they portray a greater meaning. I actually think we need to use more uniquely English words and not all of these Latin and Arab words, where possible). Many of them associated with their insistence upon medical intervention for a disease that you can have with ZERO SYMPTOMS! Not just the vaccine being the cause of their ailments either. 

Oh my goodness. I do not want to go on a long tangent but people really were being told to isolate with ZERO SYMPTOMS! LOL I remember Scamdemic so vividly. I remember how EVERYONE around me behaved. I remember paying extra to security to get into bars. I remember that shit. I will never forget how some people behaved and judge me to this day when I was absolutely right about it all! That was one of the craziest shits to ever happen to us and these people HOPE we forgot. In fact, I've been so right about all of this shit that people are just ignoring me because they are tired of me shattering their delusions.  

The second edit is going great and it will be released along with our Bad Thoughts Essential T-Shirts very soon. For the t-shirts, the tags that are sewn into the back of the shirts were delayed and then I have to have all of those tags sewn into the shirts. I have unique tags being printed. This is a single man LLC... for now.

PRE-ORDERERS

I am grateful for the patience of those that pre-ordered More Bad Stories and/or one of the Bad Thoughts Essential T-Shirts. I wanted to give another gift besides Bad Stories and a leather bookmark. Because of this further delay, I am going to offer one of two items for free to people that have pre-ordered More Bad Stories and both items for those that pre-ordered the Essential Bad Thoughts T-Shirt. In the photos that accompany this blog post I am wearing the Bad American Thoughts Trucker Hat and the Bad Black Thoughts Essential T-Shirt. 

Both of these items I plan on releasing at the same time as the Essential Bad Thoughts T-Shirt; both items will be extremely limited. More detailed product photos will be up on badthoughtspublishing.com soon enough.

Bad American Thoughts Trucker Hat

This ain't your granddad's patriotism. The Bad Thoughts Trucker Hat by Bad Thoughts Publishing Company plants the American flag where it belongs—right inside the chaos of your mind. Our signature Bad Thought Bubble now flies the red, white, and blue like it was always meant to: unfiltered, unapologetic, and untamed.

Built for outlaws, overthinkers, and those who never learned to shut up, our hat is a salute to the flag of the greatest country in world history—it dares it to stand for something real. Whether you’re burning rubber, questioning authority, or just breathing free air, this lid’s got your back (and your head).

• Made of 100% Polyester
• White front panel
• Screen Printed American flag waving inside the Bad Thoughts Bubble logo
• Adjustable snapback, to ensure fit for all rebels
• Royal blue pre-curved visor with polyester chain detail
• Let your mind breathe through royal blue mesh
• Pre-curved visor with polyester chain detailing

Bad Black Thoughts Essential T-Shirt

Not all symbols are worn in the light. Crafted in the greatest country in world history—the United States of America—this t-shirt carries more than cotton. It carries weight. Woven from 5.5 ounces of 100% certified organic ringspun cotton, it’s deceptively soft, but make no mistake: this shirt is not for the faint of heart.

A screen-printed graphic haunts the left chest and right sleeve, subtle yet unshakable—like the thoughts that creep in when the room goes quiet. The cotton rib neck and side-seam construction offer structure, but it’s the inner unraveling that gives this tee its edge. Double-needle coverstitched seams hold it together even as the mind wanders into darker corridors.

Wearing it doesn’t change who you are. But it reminds you of what you’ve buried. What you’ve ignored. What you’ve tried to forget. And sometimes… it whispers that maybe the worst ideas are the ones that feel most true.

• Made in the greatest country in world history; The United States of America
• 5.5 oz.
• 100% certified organic ringspun cotton; black
• Screen Printed black graphics on left chest and right sleeve
• Cotton rib neck
• Side-seam construction
• Double-needle coverstitched seams

(The item descriptions were created with the help of ChatGPT.)

That Bad Black Thoughts Essential T-Shirt has the exact specifications as the Essential Bad Thoughts Black T-Shirt. 

 

I also wanted to announce that there is no longer going to be a comic that accompanies the short story, The Book of The Machines. I am not a great cartoonist, inker, or sketcher, I do love to sketch, doodle, and draw and I thought I would be willing to devote serious time (or have serious time) to creating an original comic based upon my work... I am not. I may just do a comic strip or something but not an actual story. The hubris to think I could create even just a ten panel comic book in a couple of months AND edit my work was foolish. In the future, I would love to work with a sketch artist to create a comic book or a cartoonist to create an animated short. Artificial Intelligence is the quickest and easiest option but I want to explore the "old ways" first. AI is here and we will undoubtedly pay for its scourge but there will be incredible anti-AI movements and art is actually at a great place where artists get to battle with or against an opponent. I actually have hindered myself and the company for not immediately adopting technology (I should have offered eBooks a long time ago but my idealism). Despite my understanding that AI is inevitable and industries will be consumed by it, AI will not consume art. Many humans cannot help but reject it. I'm in no rush either, my book of short stories is strong but I am also a creative enterprise. Bad Thoughts Publishing Company will publish more than just books and hopefully God grants me the time and inspiration to publish different media and mediums.

This will be the last update (in this update). I have also been working out how I am going to organize my websites. Posts like this one I am going to reserve for here, jonathansheppard.org. My official website is for more of my own personal thoughts and feelings and Bad Thoughts Post will be more for editorials, articles, official company updates, and official releases. I intend on posting more often.  

I will clearly distinguish the difference in my next post on badthoughtspublishing.com. That post will address Trump and Epstein and why I still will support the president despite the completely obvious and retarded attempt at a cover-up.

I officially voted for Trump in 2024 for the first time but I have been treated as a Trump support since 2016 because I have conservative leanings. That's the crazy shit about all of this. I have been treated like a Trump supporter whilst voting is official support I never said or announced my support for him. I know for certain that people assumed my support for Trump (then deny how I am with them because I do not agree with them politically) and have thought me a lesser man because of it. 

Luckily, The Most High gave me the wherewithal to not account for fools. My new goal (another goal!) is to post on both my websites at least once a week. If you want to know or care about what I think about the bullshit being presented to us by outlets incentivized to portray a narrative, you can visit either of my websites. Let's see if that happens. 

You can still pre-order More Bad Stories... if you're nice I'll let you in on a secret. If you click on the pop-up window you can still pre-order the physical copy for $19.99. Physical copies will be pricey and will only go up in price, the eBooks will be dirt cheap. 

Ebooks will be available for all of my works at launch of More Bad Stories.