Giving NaNoWriMo another shot this year. Here’re the results of the first night. My office is modest. In terms of feet and inches, one could refer to it as mid-sized, and I guess it is as home offices go. There are two bookcases in it made up of very thick wood, equally…
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He hesitated as he took his first steps into the facility. It was larger than he’d imagined, with high, sterile walls, banal and cold in comparison to the tapestried facades of the other buildings on the medical campus. In lieu of his planet’s flag which, accompanied by the host planet’s…
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At a breakfast I attended, next to a man who seemed indifferent enough, I started a conversation. He was reserving space in his stomach for more hearty fare, due to soon change ownership, and he felt compelled to tell me about a spot in the mall that made great greens & chops & catfish just…
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Sometimes I absolutely do not care about the Internet, or web technologies, or the latest trends, or “webrities”. Sometimes I want to fully embrace my inner nerd and watch SyFy all day. Sometimes I’d rather ruminate over the ratio of cumin to thyme in a pork loin roast recipe. Sometimes I want to eat…
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I prayed for a proximity that could only be attained through dependence. I petitioned for the sort of insight, the sort of disclosure one could only be privy to under the weight of another’s hand (out of a genuine desire to right wrongs of faith, or of character, you might pray to a God…
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This is the beginning of something that is unfinished. Partly fiction, partly truth. When I was twenty, I attended a wake. George’s father died unexpectedly. Me being one of his close friends, George called me several times that week to keep me updated on his father’s condition, the root and scope of which…
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if I were to be the one called to expound on what it means to make simple the things which are not at first or seventh glance, and