Megaron, Part 2
V. Lethargy. If I needed to pick one word to describe that year, it would be lethargy. The term most likely derives from the Greek “Lethe,” the river…
Megaron, Part 1
I. It was long before the Crisis of the 21st Century, the years of our Lord 2020 and 2021, that my story really began. It was before the Virus and…
Solus and Hope
How can one actually describe the pain of an isolated man? This question first popped into my head in the midst of a long and difficult night, the…
Underhill, Part 2
II. "To reject nihilism is the beginning of virtue." --- Anonymous Charles Dickens began his novel A Tale of Two Cities with the famous line “it was…
Underhill, Part 1
I. "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." --- Edgar Allen Poe Kingsport’s history has long been overshadowed by that of its more…
The Problem with Freedom: A “Sins We Remember Fondly” Postscript
XIII. How many people, if they were given the power to instantly have anything they wanted, would quickly self-destruct? I believe it is the vast…
Croatoan
"Boomers overinvested in personality Gen Xers cultivated an ironic detachment toward personality Millennials were constantly told that had…
The Sins We Remember Fondly, Part 4
X. Many of us who have spent time in 12-step or similar programs have come across the “martyr” personality. This person’s desire to clean up…
Diary of Another Madman
1 January 2015 I have twice sent out electronic messages-in-a-bottle, and twice have gone unanswered. The first time I considered it a one-off. The…
The Sins We Remember Fondly, Part 3
VIII. I was too mentally fatigued to open my computer and work for my second (or at times, my third) job, so I simply sat in a chair and closed my…
