Category Essays

The Monsters Have Already Arrived (2001)

I’ve always been fond of the Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are due on Maple Street”. In this particularly compelling short, a series of random blackouts cause a seemingly normal neighborhood to disintegrate into hysteria and distrust. The catalyst of…

The Monsters Have Already Arrived (2026)

I’ve always been fond of the Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”. In this particularly compelling short, a blackout causes an Anytown, USA neighborhood to disintegrate into murderous hysteria. At first, the various homeowners congregate in…

December

Midnight came with Chinese fireworks pretending to be an artillery barrage. The attack was sudden and prolonged, filling the night with thunder and whines. Our forces have successfully defeated the year yet again, it seems. A hollow victory at best. Time remains undefeated.

Bartlesville

Alright…so as some of you are aware it’s been a particularly rough few weeks for me (the details of which I’ll leave aside for the sake of this particular post), but as is in most bad things there were some…