Tag Archives: death

Price of Tomorrow

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Tietsu

I’m dying. Excuse me? I’m dying. What do you mean? What do you mean ‘what do you mean’? I mean, this thing I’m doing now, couple months time, I won’t be doing it anymore. I don’t- why? What happened? Fuck … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged alcoholism, cancer, death, dialogue, dying, fatalism, illness, microfiction, misery, mortality, sickness, sketch, soccer, the taste of mortality | Leave a comment

Bodies

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Tietsu

Dead men. Dozens of the them litter the street, eyes hollow like the blackened core of rotten trees. Some still twitch others, fester quietly in the wet chaos of the road, oblivious to the mounds of traffic racing past them … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged bodies, bones, chaos, death, horror, injury, organs, slaughter, war, warzone | Leave a comment

Book Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Tietsu

When a loved one dies there is always some(or one) among the grief stricken who are left with the task of writing an obituary. There are people at the paper, at the memorials, who can help, but the burden still … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, Nonfiction | Tagged american history, Biography, corporate greed, death, history, Kate Moore, patriachy, radiation poisoning, Radioactivity, Radium, The Radium Girls, There was a time when we put radium in literally everything, women's rights | Leave a comment

Flashback: The Day The Gods Left

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Tietsu

Preamble (again): Some part of me enjoyed the embarrassment of revisiting old things. So I’m posting another one of the self-contained stories while Gaiman’s book rings in my soul and makes sharing these old, imperfect children seem harmless, almost fun. … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged abandoment, alternative history, death, failed novel, fantasy, fear, gods, myth, nomads, norse mythology, Short Story, vikings, world building | Leave a comment

Ruminations #5

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Tietsu

I always found it strange that an orgasm to be rather strangely named with the French “La petite mort”. The little death? Really? Not to gross anyone out here, we’re all adults, I have a kid, so I’ve sex at … Continue reading →

Posted in Essay | Tagged daydreams, death, epiphany, Fever, flu, hallucinations, mania, nightmare, nightmares, Orgasm, paranoia, sickness, The Little Death | Leave a comment

Untitled Short Story (Excerpt)

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Tietsu

It was 7am and they were eating breakfast. Cheerios if you care. It’s not important, but maybe you’re the type of person who inexplicably links favorite foods to stores of empathy, I’m not here to judge you, I’m here to … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction | Tagged Cheerios, death, excerpt, Explosions in the sky, No Names, Numbers, ordance, Scarcity, Short Story, Stealth, war, warzone | Leave a comment

Jump

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Tietsu

Petrified baggage. Old as time and about as compelling as a roadkill soap opera. Doesn’t help you cant get rid of it. Doesn’t hurt to try until you find out it’s you with the dishwater. Ah, well, no use in … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction | Tagged a laugh, buildings, city, cityscape, death, eternity, falling, hell of a way to go, jump, Life, regret, suicide, swallowed by the wind | Leave a comment

The Laughing Dead

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Tietsu

The funny thing about life is that one day you will be dead. Even then, they will still be laughing at you. It’s not out of malice, it’s just what they do. I mean, I guess it could be out … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction | Tagged blood, crispy, death, deathless, dying, fire, haunting, immortal things, keep them away from the children, laughing, malice, undead | Leave a comment

I love you

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Tietsu

I love you. I’m not entirely certain who you are, but rest assured at this moment my love is as real and thriving as anything I’ve ever felt. Sure it may be linked to the liquor coursing through my veins, … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction, Something Else | Tagged alcohol, atoms, contentment, death, galaxy, getting by, hate, humanity, I love you, Love, philsophy, the universe | Leave a comment

Dream #3

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Tietsu

Tears fall, wiped by stubby young fingers, misery guided by the jubilant dance of beads and feather. Bodies cleansed and given by jagged rock to faith and fear. Time binding and stretching in doomed struggle against divining force. Weeping met … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction | Tagged Aztec, blood, blood for the blood god, child sacrifice, death, Dreams Away, faith, fear, history, ritual, soul, The Novel I've almost written, Tláloc | Leave a comment