Words

Essays, observations, things I felt strongly enough about to write down. Long-form, short-form, and everything in between.

Featured Works

States of Matter

Novel-in-stories · 5 chapters

Five interconnected short stories following the same character at ages 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30.

T¹⁰

Story collection · 10 stories

Ten Terrible Terrific Tall Tales Trying to Trip the Triune. A college-era set of ten short stories.

Heart of the System

Novella · in progress

A young woman becomes a participant in an unprecedented event in human history.

Absence

Short story · published

A man unwilling to deal with the rest of humanity decides to leave society.

Short Stories

Other fiction not part of a collection

Bad Poetry

Verse I like, regardless of what anyone else thinks

Articles

Pieces I have written over the years

Aphorisms

Pieces of writing small enough to swallow whole

All Words

475 posts

Updates Seriously, why is it so hard for certain people to pronounce Kamala?

Feb 12, 2021

Updates The font used on Twitter is Helvetica Neue. What’s something you know that most people don’t?

Feb 1, 2021

Updates If I post a picture of my cat, dozens of people will see it. But if I post a video that I’ve spent days working on, Facebook makes me pay to show it to more than two people.

Jan 31, 2021

Updates I just dropped $100 on a new mouse that doesn’t light up, so my next obvious step is to buy a house.

Jan 30, 2021

Updates Every time someone I don’t know contacts me via private message, I think, “Ooh! Another Turing test!”

Jan 25, 2021

Updates I think my favorite part of working from home is that many of my coworkers are now familiar with my cat.

Jan 24, 2021

Updates Most people will take the time to google the #1 song from their birthday but won’t google the source of the potential misinformation they’re sharing.

Jan 21, 2021

Updates WWG1WGBBQ

Jan 20, 2021

Blog Police are Proving the Protestors’ Point

Most Americans are white (for now), so when we say “most Americans,” we mostly mean white people. And most Americans don’t truly understand how bad other people have it. The…

May 31, 2020

Updates I think I’m finally getting old. A couple of loud cars just roared through my peaceful neighborhood, and I stared out the window with my fist clenched for way too long.

May 30, 2020

Updates Just made a turkey, swiss cheese, tzatziki sauce, potato chip sandwich, so…living my best quarantine life.

Apr 25, 2020

Updates This has got to be one of the greatest times ever to be a beloved pet.

Apr 11, 2020

Updates Considering how many lives are at risk, it should be illegal to spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.

Apr 1, 2020

Updates It’s. So. Quiet. Outside.

Mar 28, 2020

Updates Today has the potential of becoming the laziest Sunday in American history.

Mar 22, 2020

Updates The #BroomstickChallenge does not instill in me a lot of confidence for the next election.

Feb 11, 2020

Updates The pendulum doesn’t swing left and right; it swings forward and backward.

Feb 5, 2020

Updates I just love it when people use subjective terms to describe objective truths. It’s the best.

Feb 4, 2020

Updates I genuinely fear that history will remember this time as the birth of the American dictatorship.

Jan 24, 2020

Updates I just overheard a conversation between two people of different generations confusing the Rapture and the Purge. It was delightfully hilarious.

Jan 23, 2020

Updates If you aren’t listening to music that gives you chills, then you’re missing out on one of life’s greatest gifts.

Feb 8, 2019

Updates I bought myself a keyboard recently and started playing again. This is exactly how it feels.

There is a video in this post you really need to see.

Jan 20, 2019

Updates 2019’s New Year’s resolution is 5760×1080.

Dec 31, 2018

Updates I don’t want to make things awkward, but you should be aware that the “recommended videos” on YouTube reveal to anyone looking over your should what kind of videos you watch every day.

Feb 18, 2018

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