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.
Renovations and Predictable Patterns.
Speculative, but only just.
Sliding Scales.
“I don’t know how many other ways this regime has to show you who they are.”
From Big Shoulder to Big Shoulder.
“It is a patchwork of neighborhoods and the neighborhoods are patchworks of people, and every one of those people are valuable and important.”
Lesser Sung Heroes.
“This decision was ultimately proven correct, and here we are, not telling the other story as we navigate the wastelands.”
“Look Room.”
A meditation on old computer games but also on job hunting in this current market and living life in middle age.
WRITE CLUB: SHARP
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 SHARP.
400 Words on Contemporary Literacy.
“We need to be trained to wrestle with them rather than demand they be stuffed in a safe and sunk to the bottom of the ocean.”
Creative Control 