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Table of Contents:
Weekly Story
Weekly Poem
Upcoming Projects
Current Reads
Upcoming Content
Weekly Story - Jan 10
This Fountain Is Poisoned
Perform. Perform. Perform.
To be remembered is to be worthy of a gaze itself. The prodding glare of crumbling sustainability, long replaced by the thrill of unrelenting dopamine. Do something controversial. Cause a scandal. Your soul is not enough. We need drama. We need shame.
Give us a reason to remember you.
Are we fading stars? Our burn, our light a forgotten dot in the cosmos, the naked eye itself deeming us too provocative? Those that yearn study us, name us, brand us on their skins and their thesis's, but what of those undiscovered? We don't worship the nothing. That forsaken unknown that haunts us, shadows our knowledge yet remains too dim to offer any real piece of mind.
What can I offer you, Dear Reader? I've already given my soul to my stories, my blood to my thundering lungs, and my tears to my dark. Is it my sweat you seek? My bile and puss and foaming grin? To peal back my skin and see the red underneath, as you wear my flesh as a coat of performative in itself?
If that is so, leave my bones to the rotting Earth, to the rats of the sewers, the ugly spiders with fuzzy fangs, and the mold growing under your neglected sink. People don't want what's underneath, and hence it's where I belong.
Perhaps in the decay I can feel the warmth you had promised me? But will corruption be a better love than being not known at all?
Weekly Poem - Jan 10
An Unrequited Storm
Peace is not something to gain.
It’s something to lose to.
An exchange freely given between what
you want and what you need.
With time you begin to lose to the comfort and trust
that envelopes you as your years
of friendship turn from one key
to a symphony.
It is never stolen, the vulnerability
you craft and share with each
quiet moment. With each loud and exciting and
overwhelming lets escape
into the silence of each other’s presence
quiet moment. Simply faded, expired
rather than forgotten. Lost.
They’re a rumble in the distance,
the lightning reminding you of the
sweet scent of ozone and familiarity,
a strong rush of wind a trademark swirl
in your heart that illustrates
the image of their hand in yours.
But it’s nothing more than a phantom.
A intangible memory that never truly existed.
You stand still, the delicate drops of
icy idealism striking the fragility of your
hope until the overpowering
weight of reality’s storm is upon you.
You remain there willingly,
because gazing up at the stars
in your soaked through clothes
with a forgotten heat
of discomfort is better than
being safe and dry, in an empty house
pumped with hot flickers of ash.
A dead dream shoved deep
within the depths of the fireplace
to cope with
the deicide of your envy.
Upcoming Projects
Infirmity's Children (Season One)
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Action Comic
Synopsis: Two years ago, a swarm of invisible creatures raided Earth, pillaging what remained of the already-fleeting human population and disappearing beneath the soil. All but a select few. Untouched and abandoned aboveground by these Reapers, survivors are forced to carry on their lives despite extraterrestrial uncertainty, all the while cursed to walk over where their loved ones decay. Their only connection? They all seem to possess the sight to see these creatures' true forms.
Following the small community of Titanous, Hallucin Survivors strive to maintain hope and fraternity. Though not everyone is as capable of handling their grief alone, and when old wounds threaten to destroy the peace they've so desperately created, an answer must be spoken. In a world where suffering is the easiest language to speak, are you to succumb to the feral instincts so painstakingly chanted, or find solace in the strife of humanity?
Coming Spring 2025 on Webtoon.
Current Reads
Steering The Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
As an experienced writer, I find myself disappointed and unsatisfied with modern writing guidebooks. It can get tedious reading the same superficial advice when you could recite that poetry in your sleep. Where are the workbooks, for me?
Ursula K. Le Guin has answered, with her 21st-Century Guide to Sailing The Sea Of Story.
Assigned to this reading within my English 3800: Creative Writing Workshop, I have found both validation and revitalizations of how I perceive and create my stories.
An amazing read, great to work through both alone and with writing peers.
Upcoming Content
Comic Promotion
My co-creator and artist for Infirmity's Children, Kr_nkyrd, has set up an Instagram and Tik Tok page to discuss the upcoming episodes. Content includes art time-lapses, "Basement Yard" type-vlogs between the Kr_nk and I, and early peaks at panels.
To support the artist, follow Kr_nkyrd's Instagram.
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