Close your eyes. Breathe. Slowly. Slower. Inhale. Register the sounds all around you- the wind wrestling with the trees, the distant sound of crickets stridulating in the cool winter grass. The air felt calm, but you could not convince your mind of this. People were dying. People were dying alone…

Writing Prompt: Write a short story with the following words: desk, tobacco, cars, marker, tape, tree, hill. It was Friday, November the 13th, and he was working late at his desk. …

To write this is to be vulnerable in a way that risks shame and humiliation. To write this is to be discredited despite all of my past accomplishments. To write this is to risk social isolation and to be disbelieved. …

To write this is to be vulnerable in a way that risks shame and humiliation. To write this is to be discredited despite all of my past accomplishments. To write this is to risk social isolation and to be disbelieved. …

TW: Rape They are not ready to hear this story. You are not ready to share it. You try to save this story for last, but it creeps into your mind at all hours of the day. It happened less than a month ago. You knew they were infiltrating your…

Commission’s Report: Psychography and the Stepped Reckoner You will be decommissioned. The Stepped Reckoner had long been embraced by the Upper Class, albeit implicitly, as a way to monitor financial markets and the flow of information throughout various industrial sectors. Another use has been to surveil poor communities, queer communities…

A Blood Cement Ceremony is an initiation ceremony that has been successfully executed several times before it was conducted on you. It is a sacrificial act of holy aggression against an isolated individual outside the Guardianship. The initiation process is inspired by the blood cement practices that took place during…

“The Negro youth and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teachings, they will be dead revolutionaries.” -FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, 1968 The Commissioner’s report revealed the details of the Guardian’s policies and actions to surveil all citizens on a massive scale, most of…

The beach is your safe space. It is where you go to escape from the city. It is where you go to escape from your anxieties. It is where you go to escape from the fear. …