November 2010
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May 2010
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“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story”
– John Barth
April 2010
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A Time to Shave
Matthew McConaughey has taught me many things. He taught me that when I take the field, I’ve got to lay my heart on the line. From the souls of my feet, with every ounce of blood, I’ve got to lay it on the line until that whistle blows. And if I do that, then I cannot lose. He taught me that eventually I had to move out of my parents’ house. And perhaps most importantly, he...
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Beered, Biered, Beard
I’m nervous. For the past two days, as I pass by the bathroom mirror, I happen upon an intense desire to shave. It has been eight years now; I don’t remember what I look like without a beard. Soon enough…
I will have to say goodbye…
But it’ll be back… I hope.
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“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect...”
– Henri Bergson
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“There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.”
– Jorge Luis Borges in “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote”
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What the fuck is character development, motive?
I took a trip to the bookstore yesterday. It’s half a block away. I should go there more often, but, like most Vermillion stores, I feel as though I’m intruding whenever I step foot inside. To be fair, the local bookstore downtown is really quite nice. It’s small and has an interesting collection. I always find something worth reading, and their prices are good. If you...
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We Are Doing Our Homework, I Swear!
There are no words to describe how impossible it is to get Sharon out of bed before noon. Successful attempts are few, but usually involve ripping the covers off the bed, yelling from the other room that we have an emergency, and now, telling her that her bike is going to rust if she doesn’t get it cleaned off TODAY. After getting a couple of new tires and tubes for the Raleigh...
“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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Short Story: Growing Connections
Despite minor coincidences between the disappearance of SCO-233 and the death of the man known as Alejandro Borges, there is no apparent connection.
Borges was born in 1953 to a United States Postal employee and his wife, while estimates put the age of SCO-233a at around 3 and a half billion years and SCO-233b at around 4 billion years, both of which are extremely rough estimates due to the...
“Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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Short Story: Once and Again: Memory
It was in the eyes of a dream-stalking shaman in the forest that rests on what would become the southern border of the late Taulemon empire. Before that, it was the last word written on the decree of excommunication of Jacob McCullen. Presently it finds itself self-aware and sifting through its scattered memories. In a moment, or later, it will be of a different time, in a different place, with a...
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Short Story: Mr. Pierson is Dead
On March 23rd 2007, a Friday, Samuel Pierson was sucked into a black hole. No one heard him scream, no one, directly, saw it happen. He was simply there one minute, and gone the next. It is said that light travels at 283,000,000 meters per second, and that past the horizon of a black hole the gravitational pull is so great that not even light, the fastest thing in the universe, can escape. Mr....
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Short Story: The Life and Death of José “Father”...
It was seen as a tragedy when the final work of José “Father” Ramirez was posthumously published 17 years after his death. The public was disappointed, and the scholars were speechless. Stories surfaced shortly after Father’s death, claiming to detail his violent and disturbing demise. Most stories, deemed rumors of horrific fancy, were quickly dismissed. It was said that Father cornered one...
March 2010
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Short Story: The Forgetting of Dr. Thorne
In 1999, Walter P Thorne conceived of a doctoral dissertation that would become a catalyst for an unspeakable horror. It was written, successfully defended, and released for professional dissemination and analysis without issue. His work, the culmination of a life dedicated to Philosophy and the natural sciences, garnered moderate praise, and would eventually, by means of an exhausting purge of...