“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jul
3
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought […]
Jul
14
(originally posted 5/31/2018) He moved into the house freshman year of high school. The tree was already grown enough to sit outside his second story bedroom window. When it was windy it would scratch the siding and when he’d seen a scary movie it would throw shadows in his room and make it difficult […]
Jul
12
(originally posted 12/5/2012) As had happened a hundred times before, the model walked in and got comfortable as he arranged his canvas and paints. Her robe came off and he went to work. After about thirty minutes her rough outline began to take shape before him and he began to get the same creeping […]
Jul
11
(originally posted 8/28/2022) “Look” began the guidance counselor, “There’s not a lot of work out there for big, dumb-looking people. I get it. But I’d just like you to think the whole henchman thing through.” The big, dumb-looking high school student sat at attention. “I also understand that tattoos and piercings don’t count against […]
Jul
10
“I’d read Kerouac when I was a teenager. That was profound… I immediately wanted to get on the road and start hitchhiking. And I did. I went all over—I went to Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas—just to get out there and see what it feels like. Everybody wants to try and jump off something that’s higher than […]
Jul
9
(originally posted 10/25/2019) Most of the time I don’t miss her. And when I do it rarely aches. But sometimes it does. Like the other day when I was driving. And to be clear this is not a sexual ache or a lonely ache. I wish it was that. The strange thing is that […]
