Busy with Fun and Not Fun Stuff
Lots of potential here: the parallels between narcotic use and necromancy are interesting, the language is often Chandler-esque in a good way, and it delves into some interesting psychological territory.
“However….”
Smoke on a Subway Platform
“There’s been an attack at the 36th street stop.”
“Where Max waits for Andoni.”
Only the Dead Have Nothing Left to Learn
That stuff, well, once you stop learning about those things, you’re dead—even if your body is still walking about, going through the motions of life. That’s existing, simply not being buried yet.
20 Years On
Scars makes sense for the body—stop bleeding, prevent an infection, protect the break—quickly—to keep us alive and then repair the harm as fast as possible. Gotta keep going after all. But, some scars heal up better than others.
The New Normal is Pretty Much Like the Old, with Scratches
Scary as hell living in Brooklyn, the deadliest place on earth for Covid-19. For a few grim weeks.
Out of the blueWhen the world turns upside down in an instant, where do you go from there?
The armed troops and the ID cards are gone now, but low-flying planes are still unnerving.
A Year After “the Event”
Resilience after 9-11—it’s about what happens in the mind as much as on the ground.
Better Living Through Chemistry: Epilogue (One Step Up From Witchcraft)
Unless someone is familiar with the ideas from Thomas Khun’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, calling psychology “one step up from witchcraft” sounds like the first shot from someone planning a war on psychology. That reading takes the angry words of a disillusioned 22-year-old too literally, even if it was how he had meant them in 1984—long before he understood how science was born, or how disciplines grow and change.
Better Living Through Chemistry: Notes from Chemically Induced Depression Part 7 of 7+ (Dread, Depression and Disassociation)
While avoiding as much contact with the world as reasonably possible as a husband, father and self-employed writer provided some sanctuary, I remained assailed by accumulating effects, both psychic and physical.
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