Steven Scrawls

Sunday Scrawl #4: Hopekeeper If I’d known what joy waited for me in my age, I would never have been so flippant with my life in my youth.

Sunday Scrawl #3: An Ode to Office Orchard Lost Disclaimer: I just wanted to write something like Office Space meets The Odyssey.

Sunday Scrawl #2: Mimicry The knock comes at 3:31 AM, the metal bunker door reverberating with two sharp raps, and I shake myself from slumber and check the monitor.

Sunday Scrawl #1: Learning Not to Know When my parents sat me down in the living room the night before I was supposed to leave for college, I thought they were going to tell me they were getting a divorce.

Space to Play I remember childhood as the slow advance of a great laboring Seriousness.

Care Doesn’t Scale I met a social worker whose job was to look after four orphaned children.

‘Small Village’ of Supposedly-Deceased Intellectuals Found Alive, Thriving at Caribbean Resort Gabriel Martinez, a 35-year-old confectioner living in the Cayman Islands, thought he was posting a simple promotional photo when he snapped a picture of his ‘c…

The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview Longtime fans of popular EDM “angststep” artist 777Linguine are “shocked” and “betrayed” after his polarizing statements yesterday that his latest album, NOMORETEARS2CRY, was written and recorded in…

Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I thought the most painful thing you could’ve said was no.

You Are Not Incompressible can be summarised as: walking, walking, walking, bit of fighting with orcs, walking, walking, walking, anguish, walking, walking, walking, bit more fighting with orcs, walking, walking, walking.

Stone Hands Reaching I’m told the statue is right in front of me, so I reach out and find myself touching a stone forearm.

Easy Questions, Part 2: Delusional Desires in Fiction In Part 1, I examined a few common tropes in stories and suggested that some stories might explore certain questions not because those questions are interesting, but because engaging with those questio…

Maybe your desires are delusional The vast majority of my desires are not the reasonable desires that I had once believed them to be.

I want to love fiction I want to love fiction.

Easy Questions, Part 1: Introduction What if our stories explore questions not because those questions are interesting, but because those questions are easier to respond to than the alternatives?

Most of my creations can be contained within an RSS feed; Doomr cannot.

Quicksilver and Clay Like everyone else, I walk around the world in a body made of quicksilver and clay.

Against Confidence I hope I never make a habit of writing stuff that makes me feel confident.

The Firefly Artist Note: it’s a metaphor.

“Progress” The following tables are my (opinionated, minimally researched) answers to questions about a curated version of Wikipedia’s list of most-visited websites (see Notes for details).

Word Rot Unless you are extraordinarily unfortunate, every problem you ever face will have been faced in some form by someone who came before you.