Deconverted: A Story of My Journey To Atheism
EDIT: Since it ties into so well to today’s daily prompt, I decided to retroactively tie it together. It has been quite a while since I wrote a self-contained slice-of-life story. Since I vaguely...
View ArticleBut Do You Know My Pain?
I drew something the other day, a sketch that reads, “you may know my joy, but do you know my pain? I know both, I feel both. To understand me, you must know both.” Today I am going to revisit my...
View ArticleMaybe Next Time: A Story About Limerance, Rejection, and How To Deal With...
Now that my summer courses are coming to an end, perhaps now I’ll begin to post regularly once more. More things have changed in the past five weeks than they have in the past two years. I had not...
View ArticleWelcome to CSI
Crime scene, no one enters! Those were the first words I thought of when I heard about CSI. But in the context of school, CSI actually stands for Collegiate Success Institute. It served as a bridge...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Relationship-Savvy
Today’s daily prompt concerns jealousy, so it gives me a bit of a reason to delve into something a bit off the beaten path. This morning from the time I woke up, I felt the utter sting of frustration,...
View ArticleA Message to the World
In accordance to today’s daily prompt, today’s post will follow this guideline: The New York Times is going to feature your blog on its home page, and you’ve been asked to publish a new post — it’ll be...
View ArticleSetting Sail: A Short Story by Dylan Greene (Part One)
I was listening to the Thinking Atheist, one of the few podcasts I’ve really liked. In one of them, host Seth Andrews lamented the lack of storytellers in the atheist community. He also wrote about...
View ArticleCloudrunner: NaNoWriMo
Here’s a sample of Cloudrunner! Chapter One: Death of a Planet She felt the texture of the rock. Even through the weave of her suit, it was clear that there was something unique about it. Carbon, for...
View ArticleLetting Go of “Normal”: A Story of How I Handled My Diagnosis
I had lived the only life I had ever known. But when the pillars of that life came crashing down, I did not stand there and watch them fall. I turned, and walked away. -Ramza Beoulve, Final Fantasy...
View ArticleWhen A Bridge Ought Be Burned: A Story About Letting Go
Today’s daily prompt reads: Tell us about a time when you flew into a rage. What is it that made you so incredibly angry? This is actually a nice one to think about. It began with that one line. That...
View ArticleDevils in Hell’s Kitchen: A Review, Memories, and The Real Life Sociopaths...
I was cleaning out storage the other day and happened upon my first novella, or novel, somewhere in between I suppose. Red cover Devils In Hell’s Kitchen, I made a second cover shortly afterward. I...
View ArticleMy Social Media Pet Peeves
Today I figured I’d talk a little bit about something that every one of us deals with: Social media. It’s part of our modern life. It informs our culture and society at large. We know it’s here to...
View ArticleW.W.I.A.E
Today’s post is going to be quite different, one that was not inspired by a curious observation or quirk of the day. No, today I’m going to descend into the dark abyss of my own depression. It was...
View ArticleThe Timeliness of BioShock Infinite: A Story of How We Are More Like Columbia...
Recently, a couple of different news items have appeared in my feed that seem to paint an interesting picture. The first one was the fairly innocuous Cheerios commercial featuring a biracial family...
View Article“What A World We Live In!”: A Story About The Imperfections of the Human Mind
Every once in a while I hear it running around in the memetic ecology. Whispering words, “we are getting dumber”, “we are teetering closer and closer to the brink of collapse.”, “Something’s wrong with...
View ArticleMist Revisited: A Story About Depression
Depression is not a thunderous night, it is a hundred days of mist. Since I redid Exodus, I believe it’s high time I redid my old “Mist” post. Just as a refresher, you may want to read over Exodus as...
View ArticleAtlas Drowned: A Story of My Flirtation with Ayn Rand and Libertarianism, and...
In the end, what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No. A man chooses, a slave obeys. - Andrew Ryan Today I’m going to talk about my libertarian phase, one long story that has been a long time...
View ArticleThe Problem With Kids These Days: A View of The Generation Y Problem From...
In one of my previous posts, I wrote briefly about the story of millennials/Generation Y/[Insert Trendy Name Here] generation. It brought to my forefront the common “Gen X” lament: Just what is it with...
View ArticleCloudrunner: NaNoWriMo
Here’s a sample of Cloudrunner! Chapter One: Death of a Planet She felt the texture of the rock. Even through the weave of her suit, it was clear that there was something unique about it. Carbon, for...
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