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Fight fire with fire
This story was written for the STSC Fiction Symposium.
You can find part 1 here.
The smoke curled from his pipe as merchant baron Ruvin gazed at his new ship, the Crimson Quest, setting sail. Meridian Islands were the destination, and while the ship carried a good amount of his precious stones, his young captain Akkar had a specific objective to achieve. Would he learn more about the artifact that the last voyage brought?...
Poems
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Isolation
This piece was written as a contribution to the Soaring Twenties (STSC) Symposium. This month’s theme is “isolation.” The STSC is a group of people who write, paint, and make stuff....
Train peace
essaySTSC Trains Symposium
This essay was written for the Soaring Twenties Social Club Symposium. Each month STSC members create something around a theme - this month it was “Trains”....
Inside the box
essayIf you're feeling a bit boxed in nowadays, it's hardly a surprise.
We live in boxes. There are the obvious physical boxes—the house, the room, the car—those are just the obvious start. Other boxes are harder to see: cultural boxes, familial boxes, genetic boxes,... Each would be a topic for a book in and of itself, but for this article, I'll focus one category: the digital boxes within the computer box....
Late night discontent
fictionSo, life hasn't been going well. Rose left me, my place was a mess, and the power was out. For the first time in a very long time, I had nothing to do. Too lucid to fall asleep, I did the thing I've been long avoiding: I thought. ...