Ghouls and Goblins.
“Today we are two weeks from midterm elections and eleven days from Halloween, so it’s a pertinent moment to talk about fear.”
Forty-nine.
“If 7 is a lucky number then 49, by definition, should be exponentially so.”
“It is physically and emotionally exhausting to have to endure such constant, naked displays of malicious intent.”
WRITE CLUB: BEAR
Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. This was the combatant essay for BEAR.
Anger / Management.
Thoughts on strangely soothing flares of temper.
Blind Man’s Eldritch.
“Even now, for what little I know, there are cracks in my consciousness that will likely never heal.”
What we suffer.
“…in the hearts and minds of those who obsess over it now the right to bear arms only means the privilege to kill, and the freedom to decide who does or not deserve death at one’s own hands.”
The Nature of the Beasts.
“They treat our home like an open-world level and they treat our neighbors like NPCs and loot boxes.”
Unwritten Responses.
Something I’m writing in place of all the things I’m choosing not to write.
