1: Wake up

Darkness overwhelms her, swirling in all directions swallowing her being. Memories blur from the back of her mind to infinity. She can almost reach out and touch his hair again. Lingering in the air is the pungent breath of blood. Silence has overtaken the darkness isolating all of her senses. Is this hell? She reaches […]

Rider

background: This is a poem that is highly inspired and built on the poem/lyrics found in the songs of the Australian cowboy film called the Proposition. I won’t take credit for the structure or the perspective but I had a really fun time writing it and thought it was still worth sharing (we could also […]

A Hero has not fallen

I wrote this about 8 years ago (before posting it here). At the time I spent my lunch and smoke breaks chain smoking with all the people that hung around outside the pharmacy I worked at. They were mostly loners, disabled mentally or physically, and often were banned from entering the pharmacy for some past incident. They were some of […]

Celebration

For four years Jennifer had been a researcher for the tech/biotech conglomerate BioSol, and today she felt the weight of those years more than ever, as she keyed the final strokes to submit her paper for publication. Her office inappropriately quiet during this occasion, only the muffled sounds of party music and chatter from outside, […]

Jesk Reader

“Accelerant. That’s all it was man. An accelerant.   Welcome to my world.” Jesk on the theory of Moore’s Law. Seventeen years ago the greatest hacker that was ever born came into this world. His name? Good luck finding that out. That was the first thing I erased from the cloud. I was eight years old […]