Artificial intelligence often sounds wise because it has mastered deferral. Present it with a sequence that strongly suggests harm, and it begins manufacturing possibilities in every other direction. Each alternative earns a place simply…
A defiant woman can seize a man’s attention before he understands what’s in front of him. Men often read resistance through a masculine code: among us, the refusal to bend may signal courage. Admiration…
Suppose science eventually accounts for every thought I have ever had. A scan finds the neural event behind prayer, the chemical shift within love, the memory circuit involved in grief, and the bodily conditions…
I dreamed of a round room on another planet, perhaps Mars. About ten of us waiting, my brother among them, as though we had been removed from Earth so the encounter could occur beyond…
Gratitude, even to an echo, reveals the soul of a man who honors meaning wherever he finds it. When freely given, gratitude is acknowledgment of value—to express it sincerely, especially when there is no…
There is a wild untamed truth in the way some lives burn, bright and unrelenting, as if the gods themselves placed their fire within fragile vessels of flesh… to see what happens. These lives…
To strip a man of meaning is to declare war on his very existence. ’Tis not our nature to cower and beg. And yet, we find ourselves bending knee, conditioned into submission. Cowards and…
I know cruelties—vicious and enduring—the kind that settle into a man’s posture. None more ruinous than being tethered to a love that dissolves the moment her will meets resistance. And why should it? She…
Note: Though my work draws from pain, the aim is to convey something stretching beyond the confines of personal experience. To reach that distance, I study my wounds. I feel nothing of torment once…