I’ve got to stop paying such close attention to the news and current events. I can’t handle it. It’s accomplishing nothing but making me perpetually pissed, and it’s affecting the way I treat my wife and also others who are far less important to me. What good does it do me to pore over the comments on news stories and anger myself? I can’t make … Continue reading I will not fight.
When I’m stressing, hard, I churn out memes to help myself process the situation. Usually, they’re Star Trek related. But not always. Clearly I take COVID19 very seriously, but laughter helps chase away fear. Continue reading Some coronavirus memes
The state of the world right now reminds me a lot of the state of the world at the beginning of my book Effugium: The Time Remaining, and I feel like Caldo making one of his blog entries every time I open this app. We’re scared. We’re uncertain. We don’t trust anything we hear. We can’t trust anything we hear. Death is in the air. … Continue reading An absolute nightmare
Nothing motivates and mobilizes people quite like propaganda. Governments know people are tribal and that in order for any semblance of uniformity or unity to be achieved, hearts and minds must be conditioned and won over, and that those people must exert pressure on the reluctant to fall in line and then ostracize them when they fail to do so. America has been almost completely … Continue reading More useless COVID-19 thoughts
A guy waiting behind me at the gas pump today honked at me. I didn’t know he was there, because I was looking at my phone and trying to select music for my drive to work. I didn’t get mad, because, my bad. I was making someone wait. I was at fault. Had the roles been reversed, with me as the honker and him as … Continue reading Idiots
Moon Garden is a collection of fanciful and speculative stories that live somewhere between science fiction and fantasy. Grave Concerns explores the darker side of life and the human psyche. Download them both to your Kindle Library for free January 25th! Continue reading “Moon Garden” and “Grave Concerns” both free today
I’ve been in such a hyped up manic state this past week that I feel like people can see the black storm clouds of crazy forming over my head when something sets me off. I feel simultaneously invincible and vulnerable. I feel simultaneously exuberant and depressed. I love everybody, and I fuckin’ hate everybody. I don’t take no pills that kill my will. Only plant-induced … Continue reading Man, I am 🦇💩🤪
“Hi, how are you doing?” Do you really want to know the answer to that? Fuck, why do people ask that question? You don’t give a shit and you’re just asking because you’re supposed to. I don’t give a shit about how you’re doing either so why are we fucking doing this? Well, let me tell you, since you asked: I’m sick and fucking tired … Continue reading How are you doing?
I waited on the dock, afraid to board the ship with the others as they boldly went forth into the world to have exciting new adventures. I watched them sail into the sunset while I stayed behind and remained a slave to my own self-doubt. I can’t sit and wait for my ship to come in, because there isn’t one coming–just a seemingly uncrossable ocean … Continue reading Jumping in
Click here to read the online version of the newspaper article about medical debt that I was recently featured in. There’s even a link to Effugium in the body of it, so I’m quite pleased with that. Continue reading Here’s the story I was interviewed for
Patrick Walts 