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City of Ice: Preview

Aren’t sure if you’re ready to splurge to get your very own copy?  Well then let me try and grab your attention with the first few parts.  Take a few minutes and breeze through and see what you think.  As of right now I have copies available for sale.  I’ll be autographing all copies for [...]

Empty Your Cup, So You May Fill It Again

I decided to take a little break and do a post on something other than the wonderful fictional worlds and characters that I have been creating.  I am sitting in my third floor apartment sweating my ass off in my little writing room right now thinking about the past.  The past 3 months or so [...]

Short Story “Ice” is Complete

UPDATE (8:04 pm): check out the link here http://issuu.com/shagnast2100/docs/ice and read the story in its entirety in a prettier format.  A few special thanks on their, please don’t be upset if you didn’t make it on their, you are all in my heart. Ladies and Gentlemen.  I have spent the last few days completing a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]