I thought of  World War I . When young men were scorched in trenches at the hand of industrialization 's first war. The  birds chirped and sung alongside the machine guns and artillery blasts. They could be heard during the quiet times.

But for a 19 year old volunteer who grew...

"Guns. You really think those will protect you?" Jhon said.

Tim raised an uzi up to Jhon who stood still staring out the glass window.

"I don't know. You tell me." Tim said.

Even before Baloo took a step towards them, Rob pointed his uzi at the mountain of flesh.

Jhon turned around. He...

He had a client. Who wanted a  decentralized version of  chess .com built.

Jack didn't think it could succeed. But he took the gig on anyway. It paid the bills. Not that he had much bills to pay. He wasn't a dad and he didn't have any parents he had to...

Two shootings. One could say to survive two  shootings took luck.

But could it be called  luck to find yourself in two shootings in the first place.

Sometimes it felt like the most unbelievable luck to even experience this thing called life.

Other times it could feel like the worst kind of luck.

Somedays...

Andrew arrived at the school with all the evidence needed to prove who the shooter was. Andrew was excited. He didn't have any  family . This would be the one thing he left behind. The one thing he would do to make his life worth it.

He imagined the town thanking...

There was a  chalkboard sign outside the Vietnamese restaurant. Andrew liked restaurants with these signs. Hand-drawn messages. Cursive letters sometimes. Drawings sometimes. They affected him different than electronic signs or those god awful TV screens that displayed horrible stock images. He hated those.

The message outside the Viet restaurant read "Have...

Once he got stomach  cancer he began recounting how many meals he had had without ever being truly grateful. Now his time was limited. But everyone's time was that way wasn't it? Since the day they were born. Nobody lived forever. Although some people wanted to live as long as...

It was dark when a voice rung out. He recognized it. You didn't need the light to recognize a voice. In fact it made it easier.

"Blue. Is that you?" it spoke the same way he  remembered. In those days back at Victoria Park. That cold winter . It was not...

The first thing I did after hanging up was drive out to the ravine. Jesse and I didn't come here often. But when we talked about ourselves with other people we made it sound like we always came out here. Matter of fact, we didn't hang out much at all.

Yet...

"Wipe that smirk off your face."

Kyle brushes his hair behind his ear. Stared at her.

"Stop it! I mean it!"

He walked over to her slow. Soon they were kissing. After it was finished they lay there. He thought he could use a  cigarette . Damn he would want one if it...