February 2011
3 posts
And the Oscar goes to...
…certainly not Christian Bale’s beard.
As I write, the Oscars are on the television. Not that I’m actually watching the program, although my dog seems to be enjoying it.
However, my fleeting glances at the “star-spangled” lineup reveal one consistent and confusing trend: celebrity beards.
2011, apparently, has been the year for celebrities to don facial hair. They...
SEE: heaven, above ^
I remember approaching the hill with trepidation. The scars of carpet bombs and soldiers’ screams were burned into the rocky face, ripping straight into the cloud-cover above.
Somewhere I hear my family’s murmurs woven into the fabric of war. Their lives are forever here, lodged into the valley between two mountains. The trains run every few hours through the station where a single,...
January 2011
3 posts
Lost in Articulation
So I’ve got an idea for a story.
Problem is, I don’t know how to articulate the idea fully or masterfully enough to make it convincing.
Essentially, the idea revolves around a doppelganger, or the double of an individual. This has been done before, namely by Dostoevsky; the difference is that mine is terrifying in a different way.
The Mad Russian focused keenly on the psychological...
