There’s a romanticism in simple things
Category: Creative Writing
Weird essays or short stories I’ve written
But the day after…
Again, and again, and again.
Protected: Something Beautiful
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Presence
It just means time.
Once Upon A Time
The world was terrible. That’s something I didn’t appreciate for a long time, and I’m still not sure it’s something I really grasp. It’s one thing to see a statistic. It’s another thing entirely to sit and to try to imagine what those numbers are trying to say — what horror is tracked by the […]
Tomorrow Never Comes.
The snake that eats itself.
The Answer?
The Frenchman wonders whether to stay home with their dying mother, or to go off to war.
The worst that could happen?
All we have is where we are. And where we are, right now, is defined entirely from within our mind.
Privilege and Luck
I think maybe it’s worth highlighting that nothing I’m saying here is particularly novel, nor do I even endorse a lot of the sentiment I’m about to express. Others have said what I’m about to say before, and almost certainly better than I have. I think it’s still worth writing this for two reasons. Firstly, […]
The lies we tell ourselves
In periods of extreme sadness, and in periods of witnessing such feelings in others, I’ve noticed that the very mindset of stress and pain alters how we perceive reality. When I’m drowning in insecurity I become immersed in a story. I’m unlovable — and the reason I’m in pain is that I’m worse than everyone […]