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Miscellaneous Mental Musings of an Emerging Artist

Author Archives: bilaldardai

Flight of the Spiteful Strigiform.

“The Owl thought no one type of human was any better than another. All of them, after all, were inferior.”

February 3, 2019 · Leave a comment

Fail-safes.

A meditation on nuclear near-misses and personal alarm systems.

February 2, 2019 · 2 Comments

What is owed and what is deserved.

About the forthcoming attempt to downplay the effects of this meaningless political exercise.

January 25, 2019 · Leave a comment

Self-Inflicted.

On the space where basic bigotry meets combat readiness.

January 22, 2019 · Leave a comment

The size of a lie.

On the distance from ridiculous to dangerous.

January 11, 2019 · Leave a comment

In summary, in brief.

Try as I might, it seems impossible to miss anything.

December 27, 2018 · Leave a comment

Body language.

Portraits of decorum in the event of a political funeral.

December 5, 2018 · Leave a comment

Unconfirmed bias.

The temptation for turnabout.

November 29, 2018 · Leave a comment

This wretched, wretched Rubicon.

On the lines crossed by others and the lines we cross in response.

November 26, 2018 · 1 Comment

WRITE CLUB: TAKING

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 TAKING.

November 21, 2018 · Leave a comment