This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock’s Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking…something…and how he descends.
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Of Windmills And Giants
It was supposed to have been a test, but it had taken her 35 years to get to this point. 35 years of her professional and personal life. Two marriages lost. One estranged child. Ostracized by her peers. Relegated to the crackpot category of scientists, financially supported by the rich fringe elements populated by otherwise intelligent and successful people who believed in conspiracy theories about Roswell a hundred years ago or people who believed in Xenu.
On the Train: Gaya Eats Here
It smells a little. All right, it smells a lot. Cold, day-old Chinese food has that quality about it at 7:30 in the morning.
On the Train: Perfect
I don’t know if you remember, little brother. Obviously, you’re dead, so remembering things isn’t in your wheel house, but if you weren’t dead, you’d recall.
Writing Notes – Chapters 8 and 9
I almost gave up over the last two weeks. I almost went back to the beginning and started over. My company shuts down for the holiday and my family took precedence over all the things […]
Chapter 9 – Dissonance
The suit made me powerful in ways I only dreamed of as a boy, hell, in ways I dreamed of as a man. But I was still just a man, and a broken one at that.
Back in the Saddle
I’ve been a bit silent as of late and it’s not because I forgot about you wonderful people. Well, all right, I did neglect you a bit and it was intentional.
On the Train: Looking Normal Helps
It helps, I think, that I’m a little on the chunky side. Don’t get upset. I know I’m chunky. I’m not upset about it, so you shouldn’t be either. And, honestly, it helps me. I’m […]
On the Train: Good Thing I Get Off at the Last Stop
This is what it looks like to fall apart. It’s not necessarily messy. There isn’t a drunken break down in front of the family around the dinner table. It’s a slow inexorable disintegration, not of […]
Chapter 4 Writing Notes
Here’s what I worked through to bring you Chapter 4 of Sol.
Christopher Hazlett 