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Social Network
There are other social networks now. I keep up with at least two myself - Facebook and Twitter, although the latter is a highly specific effort that the vast majority of people on the former don't know about. On top of that are emails, some vague forum-like activities, even a half-hearted podcast ( Read more... ) -
Creativity Sunday - the god of tiny, insignificant things
The mantra, repeated endlessly, brought stability. It was simple, almost meaningless - "breathe in, breathe out, and place the next piece". He'd started it when he was building his tower of blocks, and somehow it had just kept going, flowing out into the rest of his day. It kept his hand steady and his mind occupied, even if on nothing in ( Read more... ) -
Creativity Sunday - How To Embrace A Hedgehog
They call it the Hedgehog's Dilemma. They might not, actually. Perhaps the psychiatric community has moved on. You do, anyway, and that's the important part.
Step 1: ExhaleThere's only so much you can do, and the first step is to realise that. You have to consider every thing you want from this, every thing you could possibly hope to get out it, ( Read more... ) -
Creativity Sunday - Pro Patria Mori
Out in the dark depths of space, one star and ten billion lives ended. The sky flashed impossibly bright, and then that was that. In one great onrushing moment, four point seven seconds after the initial detonation, everything was obliterated ( Read more... ) -
Creativity Sunday - Radioactive
She ties her heart to you; thick red veins tangling out involuntarily to wrap each of you in this nested embrace. It's not intentional - if she had a choice she probably wouldn't, on balance - but she simply radiates. Her heart beats so fiercely and so freely, and then before you know it you look down and find her blood pouring through you in turn ( Read more... ) -
Creativity Sunday - Failure To Launch
"You want to write? You want to be a writerShe fairly spat the word, throwing it on the floor in front of me in disgust. She hadn't been this dismissive of anything since I'd told her I'd wanted to start a swingers club for comedians called 'Take My Wife, Please'. At least that had been shouted down without resistance on account of simply being ( Read more... ) -
FYI
Quick entry: currently I am in Toronto. I arrived right in the middle of the Big Ol' Storm, although the bus must have driven right through the eye of it because I only ever encountered annoying levels of rain, as opposed to the apocalyptic levels people went through elsewhere. But while delays meant I didn't get to my destination until about ( Read more... ) -
Creativity Sunday - The Lonesome Road
There was nothing out in front of him, just that big black sky. His headlights ate up the road ahead, pulling him onwards as he drove into the night. It was large, it was straight, and it was his. There was a lot of things behind him; a lot of complicated twists and turns, but out here in front there was nothing but this one straight line. He liked ( Read more... ) -
Welp
In about a week and a half I leave the country for... a year, I guess? It's all shockingly open-ended - I have a ticket that goes from here to the UK, then on to the US, then back to the UK three months later. And then that's where my tickets stop, and I have to decide what to do then ( Read more... )