THE VOID AROUND HAPPINESS

Fall. It was such a perplexing season for the young Jenson. His mood changed for absolutely no discernible reason, and always for the...

"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...

Why do people lie?  There are times, sure, in which the person doesn't get caught, but what benefit does it really have to lie? Humanity...

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...

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,...

-Painting by Lesley Oldaker, Time to Change In the year 2017, over 70,000 people died of a drug overdose. This number was just in the...

Indifference is the sign that a person has expended too much energy for the topic at hand. Thusly, if one desires another to care for...

Before I begin, I do not believe that all religious people are bad people and, in fact, can even be good people. This is an overview of...

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...

The light is piercing, almost painful.  A solid white room with the brightest sunlight I could imagine pouring in from above as though...

A child, young enough to be a great grand daughter to the old man, tells him a story about how a chicken makes a “po” sound. The old man...

A handful of people sit, by pure coincidence really, while a jazz band plays covers of music spanning nearly a century. The band alters...

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...

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...

He looked at her while she didn't even so much as give a glance.  Every day was the same story.  He had this misguided belief that if she...

There is a theory that humanity shifted it's focus on survival to a focus on pleasure, but I find this to be missing a major point. ...

There was no frame of reference – like being in the void of space, only he felt gravity pulling him towards something. His shoulder slams...

I will preface this entry with stating that I do not believe that religion inherently makes you a bad person. Now, having gotten that out...

Before I get started, I will preface this by stating that I do not believe that religion makes you a bad person.  In no way do I believe...

We work our lives away, so we can retire some day, and watch the bluejay float and flutter another way. We regret our lives spent wasted...