Awake early on a Monday, before her eyes could even adjust to the vague light of day, she would reach for her phone and check her Facebook. It had her weather forecast for the day, and it was normally the first thing she absorbed of her surroundings, not long after the anxiety of returning to… Read more
People react to things. It’s a crucial part of how our central nervous systems function as living organisms. Burns, freezes, pain, possible further pain, possible death—humans are going to yank away their body parts or duck underneath something if suspect any harm will come to them, and possibly live longer as a result… Read more
Two months before the coronavirus pandemic blew up in the U.S., I got transferred to the graveyard shift at my job. Which meant that, for starters, unlike the coronavirus itself, the curve for my dating life was seriously about to flatten. My casual sex life, however, like the number of idiots watching FOX News who… Read more
Fallacy of the hive mind – 1.) Inferring that someone who makes a comment which aligns with a consensus political opinion or movement on social media possesses the same deep, ingrained, singular, core principles or characteristics as that group or movement. 2.) Erroneously clumping people into a spuriously-named, demographically or sociologically unofficial group because they… Read more
Didn’t take long to see the gold crucifix around his neck. And once I did, it seemed ready to pounce on me like a leopard in the black, tall prairie grass that was his chest hairs, framed by his considerably buttoned-down, purple polyester shirt. I was on a bus back in New Orleans, around 12-years… Read more
Anime is anime. If you think you’re just watching a “cartoon,” or mere, over-sexualized, hacky sci-fi nonsense…well, sometimes you are, but that’s never the alpha and the omega of any series. You’re always going to find a surplus of literary goo-gaws involved—those things which make you cry, thrill you, grip you or inspire you in… Read more
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