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“See… that right there… is what it’s all about. Laboring in obscurity. Starving and struggling. The man who embraces his mediocre nothingness… shines greater… than any.”

Keanu Reeves

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May
28

Dead Stars by Ada Limón

Out here, there’s a bowing even the trees are doing. Winter’s icy hand at the back of all of us. Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels so mute it’s almost in another year. I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying. We point out the stars […]

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May
28

The OnlyFans of Anne Frank

It was time for the rubber to meet the road. An eloquent way of describing what would be an ineloquent moment. You see, in this scenario he was the rubber. He looked down from the edge of the very tall building to the road below. No traffic. Perfect. It was time for him to hold […]

May
27

a come from behind story

(originally posted 8/6/2012)   He had known her for years and been dating her for weeks but as he dropped her off at her front door he realized he still wasn’t going to get to first base with her. The dates had been pleasant and the chemistry seemed to be working… but still nothing intimate […]

May
26

Rose and Poppy

(originally posted 9/19/2021)   Two months ago Rose was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. A pretty grim first sentence I’ll grant you, but as it’s a pretty grim story I figured I’d just jump right in with the grimness. Although the ending is grim in a way you might not expect. If that’s not […]

May
25

not intended to be a spooky story

This is not intended to be a spooky story, but as there is a supernatural element to it I can see how it might end up being a bit creepy. I am a college student and I help make ends meet by babysitting. On this particular night I was sitting for a couple of new […]

May
24

hypnagogic hallucinations – another tool in the writer’s toolbox?

I came upon the term ‘hypnagogic hallucinations’ while attempting to write a story about AI. I wanted find the biological equivalent of the ‘hidden layer’ of AI, the layer in between input layers and output layers, where artificial neurons take in a set of weighted inputs and produce an output through an activation function. I […]

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