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A Short Story About Wasted Time
They glanced at each other from across the room - it was a once in a lifetime expression which was solemnly washed across their faces. With a reassuring swallow, they both slowly reaffixed their eyes back upon the dreary light protruding from the tiny basement window - the only thing which kept them in assurance that the world outside was still...
A Handful of Outright Tyrants
On the 23rd of December 1776, a young Tom Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” At the time, a young idealist nation was crawling forth from the first battles of revolution into a world being born anew after the Industrial Revolution. This nation, spearheaded by the (wealthy) intellectual Renaissance men of the new world,...
What the song “Shh” by Donora is Really About
This is part of a series I begain writing where I reinterpret song lyrics into short stories.
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If you listened close enough, the muffled sound of whispers and quiet breathing could be heard through the fractured walls of any apartment on this gloomy and despondent street. If you listened closer, specifically to door of...
On The Institution of Religious Doctrine
It is a given that in the United States, each person, as free as moral and just laws allow, is free to pursue his or her own enterprises at their leisure and discretion. While laws subject to the errors of opinion that men and women have from time to time can render themselves and the people they govern as unjust, it is the trust of a...
Biting my Tongue
“He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.” - John Locke
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Good evening everyone.
A few nights ago I was faced with a dilemma upon whether to act on an impulse which seems to be pervading my general ability to remain calm and civil as these politically strident days pass us...