We’ve all known the terror of staring at a blank screen. Not knowing what to write, we dive into a white void, hoping to come out with a tangible product. Rarely do we find anything. Instead, we lose ourselves in the emptiness of the page, growing less and less confident…

Imagine you’re in college, renting an apartment with your friend. She and her boyfriend are getting very serious, and even though she’s been very careful, she finds out one day that she’s pregnant. She can’t keep the child. She doesn’t have the money to take care of it, for one…

Everything in the therapist’s office is a shade of brown. It is not an uncomfortable shade of brown, but a brown that embraces, the brown of oak desks and too-big leather chairs. As an eight-year-old, I could practically sink into one and completely disappear, but my therapist has offered me…

Sure, sure, a lot of people have called Super Mario Odyssey one of the greatest video games of all time, but wouldn’t it have been better if, instead of being a fun romp with a magical, mind-controlling hat, it was actually an adaptation of the ancient Greek story of a…

Twenty-year old me would hate where I’m at, right now. Sure, he’d be proud that I’m working as a writer, but not necessarily the work I’m doing. I write gaming list articles and simple content for English language learners, occasionally dipping into conversational poetry and screenwriting. …

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of an English degree, must be in want of a job in the service industry. Society derides them, just like people with art degrees, or really anything not related to STEM jobs, and calls them useless. After all, what…

A few years ago, my partner and I broke up in a way that tore me open. For months afterward, I walked around feeling like my skin was raw. Every little thing would make me bleed. So, of course I ended up breaking down at work. …

Some people use their bookshelves as displays. If someone has a copy of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, they are trying to communicate that they are a sophisticated, well-read person. …

If you’re up on the news, you know that there are an enormous number of justifications that Russia has used to justify their invasion of Ukraine. As Ed Shokur, a Ukranian who contacted me after an article I wrote two weeks ago, wrote, Putin’s propaganda frames Ukraine as nation run…