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Top Home Automation Products of 2024

Home automation technology isn’t new, but advancements made every day advance the field miles past where it started. The benefits of smart home technology are endless: the ability to control devices around the house from your phone or while out and about; using voice-controlled interfaces to make life simpler; and the ease of mind knowing your home is protected and monitored using smart home…

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Review- Gifts of the Crow by John Marzluff and Tony Angell

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The 3 Best Methods For Dealing With Panic Attacks

New article posted, 3 Best Methods For Dealing With Panic Attacks!

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Lucid Dreams - Short Story

NEW POST! Lucid Dream by Al Whitt, inspired by That scene from Sharkboy and Lavagirl, you know which one #fiction #shortstory #sharkboyandlavagirl

The first time I saw you was a lot like the last, smothered by the rank stench of fear. The air was cold and damp, firmly after sunset, not that I could explain why I was so sure. My blood ran hot, each and every vein boiled. Then, you. Your pupils were flared, and the look of absolute rage on your face, directed at me? I froze immediately. Every inch of my skin bristled with anticipation. The…

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Out Back - Short Story

New Flash Fiction! Out Back by Al Whitt. #fiction #creativewriting

I didn’t get much mail, making the white, crumbled envelope crammed under my heavy door more exciting. There were globs of orange the same shade as my hair all over the outside, with my name sprawled across in large calligraphy, Ava “Teamkill” Jackson. I hadn’t seen my full name in a while, and never with my street name. The whole invitation was a mockery of my past, and the terrible things I’d…

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Good Cover - Short Story

New Post! More flash fiction: Good Cover by Al Whitt. #fiction #shortstory #badideaal

Brianna stares at the middle-aged bank representative in a black polo and dress pants asking for her parents, then looks just left of his bearded face into the tall bushes of big red hibiscus flowers for a good lie. “No,” she replies on instinct, recalling her mother’s voice deep with exhaustion through two pillows and a thick, cream-colored comforter groggily allowing her outside, “she’s at…

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Duck, Duck, Goose - Short Story

New flash fiction! Duck, Duck, Goose by Al Whitt. #fiction #shortstory

Short but wide red mushrooms peak out from under fanning brown leaves, bright spots enlivening the regular, dreary gray mountainside so familiar to those of the small but familial city of Winderscot. Traditionally, dark log cabins dot the valleys clear of the towering dark oak trees that make up most of the mountain, but in these modern times concrete and drywall creations find themselves side by…

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A Glimpse of More - Short Story

New Post! An even shorter story!! A Glimpse of More by Al Whitt.

The door slams. A second, softer thump following signals the flimsy screen door hitting the frame with a subtle screech as the metal lock snaps into place. Less than two minutes later the old door creaks open again, and the sound’s parade repeats. Soft footsteps from the first floor can be heard through the hardwood flooring, along with a faint jazz tune playing gently over muffled talking. The…

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Fate's Game - Short Story

New Post! Another short story, Fate's Game by Al Whitt. #fiction #shortstory

A tawny colored hand, slim and poised, reaches out and tugs a slim red tie down into a firmer knot. “Mom!” Ryan coughs and reaches up to where his starched, white collar is flared up, touching his chin. His mother laughs but brings her other hand adorned with various rings and matching gold bands to loosen the simple knot she had just taught the rapidly panicking Ryan. “You worry too much,…

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Present - Short Story

New Post! A short story called Present by Al Whitt. #fiction #creativewriting #badideaal

A dark shape moved with the heavy sheets of rain. I counted the vague swirls marching down the sidewalk, reveling in the flood. The huge oak trees across from our building sat in pools, completely immersed to their roots. The shadows paraded down west 142nd street in a show of force against Manhattan. I don’t remember when everyone else started seeing them too, but it couldn’t have been long…

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston- Quote Collection

Opera has a point, best love story I've ever read #zoranealehurston

“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming…

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Slaughterhouse-Five/The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut- Quote Collection

This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. It begins like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet?"

“I think of how useless the Dresden part of my memory has been, and yet how tempting Dresden has been to write about, and I am reminded of the famous limerick:There was a young man from Stamboul,Who soliloquized thus to his tool:”You took all my wealthAnd you ruined my heath,And now you won’t pee, you old fool.”And I’m reminded, too, of the song that goes:My name is Yon Yonson,I work in…

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde- Quote Collection

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde- Quote Collection

The Preface “The artist is the creator of beautiful things, To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.” The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, “The Preface,” pg. 7 “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. There are the elect…

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Bokononism, A Practical Guide: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.- Quote Collection

Bokononism, A Practical Guide: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.- Quote Collection

I should like to offer a Bokononist warning about it however. The first sentence in The Books of Bokonon is this: “All the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle, pg. 13-14 One of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s classic novels, Cat’s Cradle is a rich narrative full of offshoots and side stories. Just a fraction of the book’s lore is concerned with Bokononism,…

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Bokononism, A Practical Guide: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.- Quote Collection

Bokononism, A Practical Guide: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.- Quote Collection

I should like to offer a Bokononist warning about it however. The first sentence in The Books of Bokonon is this: “All the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle, pg. 13-14 One of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s classic novels, Cat’s Cradle is a rich narrative full of offshoots and side stories. Just a fraction of the book’s lore is concerned with Bokononism,…

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Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi- The Diversity Fantasy Deserves

Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi- The Diversity Fantasy Deserves

Legacy of Orïsha is the diversity fantasy fiction has always deserved, but not gotten in this whitewashed scene. Tomi Adeyemi shines in Children of Virtue and Vengeance, her second book in her Legacy of Orisha series. LGBTQ+, BLM, and the ACAB movement can take inspiration and see genuine progress with the visible diversity and values represented here. Young children can read about people just…

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Quote Collections

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – Quote Collections

“First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-““Sir?”“-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”Harper Lee, pg. 34 “I’m afraid our activities would be received with considerable disapprobation by the more learned…