Why save the world today, when you can put it off until tomorrow?
When I look into the mirror, it isn’t just my reflection that stares back at me. In the quiet of my bathroom, a gathering of familiar figures—the personified pieces of me—have plenty to say. “It just keeps getting longer and longer,” Face frowns and grumbles at me. I glance down at my neck. My beard […]
I sit on the couch, attempting to meet my quota for my daily writing. I open the document for my current project, but the thoughts refuse to flow freely. I’m at a tense and pivotal part of the chapter, and it must be handled adeptly. But today, I don’t have the mental capacity to make […]
I don’t know when it started, but my earliest memory of wanting to be a writer was in third grade. My teacher gave us a project where we had to write a story to match some printed out drawings and form our own book from it. She knew it would be something I was interested […]
When I was a kid, around thirteen or fourteen, I liked to pretend I was immortal. I was going through that phase where children begin turning their imaginations toward things other than make-believe play and I was starting to mourn the loss of schoolyard fantasies. Pretending to be Dragonball Z characters at recess was no […]