Futility Stories

A poem I made for a vss365 prompt on my X page. I hope you like it!

Chelem accomplishes the unbelievable in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

An examination of the creative process, of the push and pull between the forces that inspire us, and those which act as a drag on our inertia, of what it means to be ins...

''It's Easier. It's Easier. It's Easier./ But being silent, being normal, being accepted..../ It isn't easier./ Because nothing has ever been as easy as choosing to lov...

short narrative story of a failed person embarrassed on an occasion.

In the shadow of a catastrophic event, a group of people navigate a now precarious existence on a newly terraformed Mars. As societal structures begin to crumble and exi...

As the main character journeys through the vacuity of consumer society, from suburban surroundings to the 'neighbourhood box store,' his mind slowly begins to unravel...

Aila is nothing more than a lost pawn in the game I've already won. She thinks saving him-the man she failed, the man she believes holds the key to her redemption-will r...

People don't bring kids to grow up on mid-ocean oil rigs, at Antarctic research stations, or on months-long nuclear submarine voyages - there's a reason. They also don't...

My first attempt at a poetry collection, this is a selection of works that I mainly wrote across the summer of 2010, with some other stuff in there too. Forbidden love...

Sometimes, I write short little stories I call "read-ons." As you read, you will obtain an understanding for the unexplained situation at hand, so just make su...

While on a vacation from her ballerina school, Ava, a young aspiring ballet dancer, returns to her family's home on a farm. There, she accidentally meets a mysterious fa...

Aggie is no more than a child, entrapped by the futility and horrors of Germany under the rule of Hitler. Follow her journey and see the horror through a young child's e...

Hemingway talks to an old man who locks himself up in a library.

a poem about futility of life.

Doing something with it