Ralph Darwin grew up with no purpose. He’d always wanted ambition but never knew how to find it. He looked under an old chair in the garage but even he knew that wouldn’t be the source of his justification of
I’m against war¹, but ho-lee, do I like war games. Now not those gunny console cartridges, or the paint firearms shooting paint bullets, or the training exercises that the big men do to show how big they are when there’s
Stacy and her boyfriend James enter through the side door into the kitchen, where her younger brother Silas is eating a bowl of banana oatmeal and reading a defunct magazine. The couple is finishing up a meaningless conversation, with James
I was born in 1988, in the same news cycle that band-aids ended up lower case. As I came into the world, Jimmy Cagney left it, the little dustmite, and my mother still tells me I’m his reincarnation. My parents
A skinny little DJ Qualls-esque fool breaks into a house. He enters through a window while sneaky music plays. TF starts looking around for anything valuable. Eventually he sees a computer and picks it up. At that moment, but before
Around twice a year, I relay an anecdote in which I apologized to someone I mistreated in the past. It didn’t actually happen. The apology didn’t, anyway. The mistreatment did. By pretending that I have apologized, it almost feels as
Mara: Ian, do you know Jordan? Jordan: Nice to meet you. Ian: We’ve actually met before, but I’m kind of glad you don’t remember. Jordan: Why, what happened? Ian: Well it was at a party at Emily and Matt’s last
Last year, about four thousand people successfully scaled Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. It isn’t the hardest climb in the world, or the longest, but it is the highest. And that’s all anybody cares about. Many alpinists
One reason someone has seen fit that a multi-national corporation would benefit from regularly giving me money is that I’m able to successfully move websites up the rankings on the Google. This skill is transferable to other jobs, I’m sure,
I went to the hopsital today. I don’t remember being here before but Mommy told me this was the first place I ever was. Half of me came out of Daddy and went to find the other half that was
