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The Quarter-Life Crisis

A What is a Quarter-life Crisis?
Unlike your parents’ Mid-Life Crisis, Mom wanting a nose ring or your dad buying that penial implant of a car or chopper, the Quarter Life Crisis is plain and simple.  It is when a young adult struggles with the person they are and the person they are about to become.  [...]

Me

I sat on my bed for a few moments and realized that I didn’t have any recent photos of myself.  So I quickly set my chair up on my bed and timed my camera to take a snap shot. The flash went off and I grabbed the camera to check out the picture.  The picture [...]

The Godlessness of Life’s Unlearnable Lessons

The air is cold now.  The beginning of another fall and winter season.  The fall has become the beginning of beginnings for me.  Has anyone ever asked you what your calender looks like in your head?  This question was posed to me when I was in 7th grade and I have thought about it ever [...]

Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.
-Anonymous
When I first read this it completely haulted my thought process.  This is probably something we all need to stop and think about at some point in our lives.  Have we really starting living our lives?  I mean, in the ways [...]

Swallowed Day: Part 2 – Nightfall

My name is Turner Strauss.  I am just your average guy living an average life.  My story isn’t much different than others.  I grew up in the rolling hills of the Northwest Corner of Connecticut.  Both parents remarried, had more kids and I was the oldest.  Yeah sure, My life was just as normal as [...]

“Untitled Project” Part 2

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Sandra’s eyes open as she gasps for air. She chokes on her own blood and begins couching uncontrollably.   The pain is too much to bear. She rolls around for a moment. She is no longer in the house where Connor had stabbed her.
There is a heart monitor attached to her finger. With [...]

TJ on Dieting

Now I think we all deserve a little creative license now and then.  It’s just we don’t always have the proper avenue to distribute such info.  Some of you may think this is inappropriate, but this was too funny to keep to myself any longer and I have Brian Marquis of Therefore I am to [...]

Swallowed Day: Part One – Run

Night had swallowed day.  Two lights filled the night on the exterior of the colonial white house.  This was my house, or at least it once was.  A flood light covered in a thick moss gave the night a greenish glow.  A lamppost lit the end of the driveway.  Most of the shutters were worn [...]

The Autumn Express

I haven’t taken much time out to write to just write for myself.  To tell you the things that I have seen and done that have brought my world “to life.”  My job as a writer is to entertain those who enjoy reading and keep them coming back to see what is next on my [...]

The Fall that became Flight

The grass was green.  The sun was at its highest point in the sky.  Clouds began to roll in. The air was cool.  A typical day, the leaves had begun to turn and the summer the summer was at an end.  Many things were at their end.
I reached my hand toward the sky.  The muscles [...]

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