Stepping into Stories, One Word at a Time
"The thing about you, Zhang, is you're one of those people who just gets better in a crisis. You think you're broken. You think you're not strong enough. All I see is that when life throws shit at you, you keep getting stronger."-Paradise-1 by David Wellington Paradise-1 by David Wellington is an epic science fiction... Continue Reading →
My entire life, I thought I needed to hold on to love with an iron fist. It was a feeling I needed to trap, to smother, so it wouldn’t slip through my fingers. Little did I know, when you’re with the right person, being in love never feels like the bottom is going to fall... Continue Reading →
"Despite being a creature out of myth, Aurelie Dubois utterly disregarded nonsense like magic, the supernatural, and gods. No, that was misleading. Her faith in science and science alone was because she was a creature of myth." A Magical Imperative by Edith Pawlicki Having read Minerva by Edith Pawlicki recently, I was really excited to pick... Continue Reading →
“The reason we show you this,” Otubre said, “right here at the start of your training, is so you’ll know what you’re fighting for. Every world’s got a lease, troopers. Every one of us has got an expiry date. But until god himself comes down from the holy mountain and tells us our time is... Continue Reading →
“The happiest people are not the ones who achieve the most. They are the ones who spend more time than others in a state of flow.”Ikigai I recently had gone to the bookstore to buy my Dad a birthday present. He shares a huge love of reading, just as I do. But I brought my... Continue Reading →
“I think you’re halfway right,” I said, a lot quieter than he had been talking. “That’s how it used to be. But I don’t think it’s that way any more.” Jon got ready to break in, but I held my finger up to stop him. “Humankind was masters of the whole world once, wasn’t they?... Continue Reading →
Of Worlds Forgotten 