Every weekend, I have the pleasure of spending time with a peculiar old man named Mr. Morrow. We meet at the coffee shop across from his apartment to discuss the meaning of life. Mr. Morrow executes his routine every single time: he orders a black coffee, adds 8 packs of sugar (“real sugar,” he insists, “not that boring substitute teacher Ms. Splenda”), centers his cup on his napkin, cracks his kn...

No one alive knows who blackened the sky.

Not that it matters. No one has time to wonder. In our efforts to save the world, we doomed it. Now, rather than look to the heavens to dream, we scowl at the dirt and die....

Such wondrous golf balls

Falling from the hot pink sky

As my car gets wrecked...

Anyone worth their salt knows of the legendary Death Mansion. It’s an ancient place, older than time itself, that sits alone at the end of Crescent Hill road. They say the owner died centuries ago, but his body still rises every morning to tend to the house. No one who’s gone there has ever been heard of again....

Uriah was right. The first two setbacks, I recovered from within a day. The third one? It hit me like a freight train. Almost ended me. But I remembered Uriah’s words. I killed the mind. Left it home.

And so, here I am again....

I hate the grind. Since the day I became sentient, the grind has been my kryptonite. I hate work.

This is a story of how I worked my ass off anyway, and won....

Quietly, they struggle. They fight because they must. They fight because to stop is die. They have no room for humanity. No sympathy for dreamers. Theirs have already died....

The story of Sasquatch is oft misunderstood. Many wax eloquent about the legendary ape-like cryptid roaming the Americas, seen by few and survived by yet fewer.

Reality is much simpler.

One day, Craig, an ordinary house husband, was voluntold by his lovely (if a smidge overbearing) and very pregnant wife of sixteen years to collect for her some zucchinis and eggplants, as she’d had a particula...

“Getting the ball rolling is easy. The first setback? You’ve mentally prepared yourself for it. The second, and more importantly the third are the ones that ruin you.” Uriah looks me and raises an eyebrow.

“How…” I swallow. “How do I survive the second and third?”

Uriah chuckles. “It’s maddeningly simple, you see. You kill the mind. How can you sabotage yourself when you’ve left your brain at hom...

“Why did you try to kill yourself, Jai?” Asha demanded shakily. “Why did you try to break the connection?”

She could still feel the pulsing rhythm of her heart in her ears and that awful sound that vibrated her entire body like a tuning fork. Jai had jumped from the roof of a four story building, and the resulting impact had transferred to the others and nearly incapacitated them all. Beri, Leko, ...