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A Recommendation of Experience, and a Note on Survival of the Mind【POETRY】

A Recommendation of Experience, and a Note on Survival of the Mind I wake up awake, fire and black snakes of death and squeezing pressure all around me, thoughts cutting thoughts short to make room for themselves, only to die moments later to another. Selfish beings, they are. Why are they here? I said I wake up awake, no? Now the past may act fast but it did bring the present …or at least the general present… And that present heals me. I wake up awake. Healing slowly, painfully. Perhaps it is the same principal of bringing that certain past to act fast. Though this new past is new and that old past old, And like a monarchy that thought does not cut the other short. It embraces it, does not rid itself of it, Yet fades it down not onto the backburner but the backcooler. Healing slowly now. The previous present speaks to me words I Could not fully hear, but could fully calm. Relativising itself into the newest present, bringing me the present of presence. Presence of myself, of my mind (...

Apocalypse Writing Challenge【FLASH FICTION】

It wasn't sudden. Not some mysterious force or natural disaster. We all knew it was coming and no one tried to stop it. Most of the world thinks it is because of the other side, but of course if both sides blamed the other who is really responsible? There have been many squabbles over things like this in the past. And of course by "squabbles" I mean riots, protests, and more. Those don't even begin to compare to this. One year ago today, June 24th, 2084, marks the day of The Falling. I'm sure you already know everything that happened, considering you aren't a four month old baby and are alive, but heck, why not retell what happened. Some new insight could always go a long way if you have any idea of how to fix this as well. In 1903, the airplane was invented. Just over sixty years later, America put the first man on the moon. Heh, seems like child's-play compared to what's been going on in the last fifty or so years. Science has kept up that exponentia...