About Stray Press
In an early cash register from Dayton, Ohio, a pinhole in a strip of paper could mean a nickel or a quarter. Its place on the strip told the shopkeeper which. We like the details you could walk right past.
Rick Munster, publisher
Rick founded Stray Press in October 2026 as an independent, free-to-read publication. We follow forgotten trades into workshops, puzzling bits of hardware into patent drawings, and the occasional fallen pine cone into a science journal.
At the desk
In Discoveries, you can inspect the drawing, read the figures, or try the observation yourself. When a detail leads to another question, follow it. That’s often how the next story begins.
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