Tag: Undiscovered Countries
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“Run”
I had to run. Not like the way some people are inspired to, like running marathons or five miles on a weekend morning while everyone else is asleep. No, my inspiration was quite different. And I was running blindly. I can’t even tell you where. They might find out. It was very late on a…
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Undiscovered Countries: “Volition”
I began the journey of my own volition. The physics I understood only enough to make them work, dragging a thin line through probability. An ode to Einstein and existentialism, that I could break rules and the shell of destiny at once. The reason slipped away after the first month. After two the ability to…
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Undiscovered Countries: “Hope Among the Ruins”
The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, now, as of about a half hour ago, was a cockroach crawling across the remains of a burnt out world. I know what you’re thinking, but hear me out. I came upon this burnt out husk of a planet, just as the flames were fighting for the last…
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Undiscovered Countries: “Francis”
“So what’s your problem?” “I don’t have a problem.” “Obsessive compul-“ “Wrong. Chrono-obsessive disorder, and it’s not a problem. It’s a condition. Perhaps I should put up a sign explaining that to people so as to avoid conversations like this in the future.” “What does it mean?” “It means that I know when I’m going…
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Undiscovered Countries: One Miracle Left
It’s a windy late afternoon, like so many other windy late afternoons. I can just see the sun, hidden behind the dust and dirt that hangs in the air as if it’s always been there and always will be. The dust and dirt that must move in the wind, but never seems to change from…
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