A Precarious Day
It feels as though I have awoken from a five year slumber and everything around me is just swampland. The damp, humid air so oppressive...
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THE VOID AROUND HAPPINESS
A Glimpse of What Lies Ahead
Welcome. This will be a place for me to share short stories, poetry, and the philosophies I have on life, love, lust, and the most complicated ways to make it through a day.
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I am a writer, a philosopher, and a photographer. I believe that the most beautiful growth comes from the most complicated of situations. I believe that life is lived by the risks we take, and the good times we experience are what lead us into the next day. I believe that humanity can be a compassionate species capable of doing wondrous things, but I also believe that most act with the most selfish intentions. I believe humanity should strive to be better every day, and it is with great hope that the writings I place here can bring about a hint of that.
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A Strange Night
There is an interesting glow coming from the night's sky tonight. I am staring up at the stars, completely disconnected from everything...
It is all Worth Something
Gasping for air, it was a compulsion. It wasn't even that he wanted to do it. It was instinct. It was pure reaction. The fall from the...
A Day of Beauty
A blade of grass cuts upon the sky, disturbing the wind as it attempts to make it to its destination. The disruption causes a whooshing...
The Demands of a Goddess
It began with death, as all good stories should. But it wasn't a good story. It was sad. It was lonely. It was desperate. And just like...
A Typical American Family
Johnathon props his back against the wall and thinks about how he wishes he could smoke inside this gas station. He didn't smoke, but at...
Relentless Pressure
The pressure builds up in the eyes. It feels as though tears could break through that proverbial barrier at any moment in time, yet they...
The Quietness of a Life Unlived
Slipping away into the solitude of night, Jimothy revolved his mind around things he could not control. It was an all consuming conflict...
Seasonal Depression
Fall. It was such a perplexing season for the young Jenson. His mood changed for absolutely no discernible reason, and always for the...
Shed a Tear for Growth
"I feel like crying," he says to himself, "but I don't even feel that I know how to." The room sat empty and silent - the way it does in...
A Short Story Dedicated to Someone Nice
I shrug my shoulders at the end of yet another date. A meaningless, trivial date that goes nowhere in a hurry and finds itself sitting...
An Artist's Perplexing Dream
The sound of a bell rings off in the distance, surely to ensure that the people of the city know it is the top of the hour. Of course,...
Fight to Survive
A sturdy, solid desk sits towards the back of the room. A single light bulb illuminates the harsh brown of the solid desk – looking as...
A Mildly Depressing Chapter With Little Purpose
A handful of people sit, by pure coincidence really, while a jazz band plays covers of music spanning nearly a century. The band alters...
Knock
It started out as a humbling drive into the sunset but emotions grew, and before he knew it he was well above the speed limit. In a...
Authenticity
It was a terribly gray sky, though the rain wouldn't fall. He sat with eyes sharply peering at the peak of a neighboring house, yet if...
There's No Tune
He tries to find the note, but it is like searching for something that doesn't exist. The light feels blinding, The throbbing behind his...
The Blackened Page
The page blackens at a deadening fast pace. The words flow from his finger tips in a fever dream state, and that is where the art comes...
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HAPPINESS IN A VOID OF DARKNESS
By Dustin S. Stover
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