9th November no responses · Blog, Novel Chapters, Writing

2011, September 3rd: I awoke suddenly, vaguely aware that the telephone was ringing.  It was still pitch black outside, so I knew it was the middle of the night.  I knew that a telephone call in the middle of the night was bad news; nevertheless, I decided not to get up just then.   I let [...]

6th November no responses · Essays, Writing

Introduction             Amartya Sen argues that most political and economic platforms advocate some sort of egalitarianism.  According to Sen, equality is a fundamental issue, even in certain brands of Libertarianism.  Although Libertarianism rejects a redistribution of goods or income, it does claim that all people should receive equal liberties.  Sen shows that the question, then, [...]

5th November no responses · Blog, Novel Chapters, Writing

2011, August 27th: I am typically in bed by 9:30pm, but tonight I felt depressed and especially tired, so around 8:00pm I washed my face, brushed my teeth, and changed into my pajamas.  I live in an apartment building and my next door neighbors are night-owls, so I closed the door to the living room, [...]

5th November no responses · Blog, Essays, Writing

This is the day that one of my closest friends went into the men’s room at the school library and shot himself in the head with a high-caliber revolver that he stole from his step-father.   He sent us, my two friends and me, a suicide note on email only moments before, from the library [...]

5th November no responses · Short Stories, Writing

Able Friedman’s students, by and large, loved attending his classes.  The young professor had such a passion for philosophy that his classes emanated excitement, and the students felt rejuvenated when they left, no matter how they had felt going in to class that day.  By half-way through any given quarter, a student who happened upon [...]

5th November no responses · Short Stories, Writing

Henry David bolted awake as toppled over onto his side, banging his head against a rock with a thud.  He was not yet sure exactly what was happening to him, except that his hands were tied behind his back and something was pulling roughly at his clothes and hair, trying to drag him along the [...]

19th October no responses · Short Stories, Writing

Hap’s farm was away from town.  People in town thought it was a good thing, too; it was embarrassing the way everything on his land was constantly copulating.  They thought that even Hap’s trees had an indecent quality about them.  It was well known that Hap’s attitude made his farm so fertile; the farmer was [...]