The more clarity I achieve, the stupider I know I am. It’s not that there’s a door unlocking inside me or that I’m falling deeper and deeper through the levels of my own life. I don’t have visitations from flowery growths of suspense and handlings. I have sharp turns in well-lit tunnels that bring me to new chapters. I have ‘top-down’ moments ( Read more... )

There is a reason in video games ( Read more... )

Lightning wouldn’t kill us if we were better conduits ( Read more... )

I believe in a god who lives in corners ( Read more... )

There’s an 8 track. There’s a birdcage. There’s a bubble of soup. There’s a signature. There’s a corkboard with thumbtacks arranging half of a life. Here are schedules and numbers being added to calculate net worth. Here is a movie from 1982. Here are homemade efforts. Here is a stereo ( Read more... )

You are not your gender. You are not your race. You are not your occupation. You are not the country you were born in. You are not the language you speak. You are not even your name. Who are you? When you try to answer this, you see the need, nay, the logical explanation for the existence of the soul ( Read more... )

“Wow, you’re so small,” said the pink humanoid creature looking at me. It had created eyes for itself and a very primitive nervous system to replicate as many human senses as it could. It had used me as a model but standing here looking at it was nothing like looking into a mirror ( Read more... )

It was that time again. Time for the aliens to mate. I was the first human allowed to watch ( Read more... )

The grey ghost of no-longer used subway tunnels echo with footsteps. Eyes the colour of brake lights sweep the halls for any signs of life. A hair, perhaps. Some old skin cells. The civilization that lived here is long gone ( Read more... )

It’s too bad we can’t do everything we want to do. There is not enough time in one life span. Choices must be made even if that choice is inaction. I believe this to be the central tragedy in life and also its saving grace ( Read more... )