Creative Control

Miscellaneous Mental Musings of an Emerging Artist

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