Creative Writing
My creative passion lies in writing, with my main interests being personal essays and poetry. Some samples of my essays can be found below!
This Is the Long Way Around
I took the long way around. I crept up a dirt path, as far from him as I could get as I made my way back to my tent from the campground bathroom. I kept his profile in the corner of my eye but tried not to look directly at him, scared he would notice me purposely avoiding him, my head ducked low and walking fast...
Symbiosis: A Study in Suffering
My family and I had planned to go hiking. I was in the car with my dad and stepmom, on our way to the trail. My sister was supposed to join us, but my dad got a call from her saying she wasn’t going to make it. She didn’t feel good; she had been throwing up all morning. “Are you sick?” my dad asked her, “hungover?” She insisted that no, she was neither of the two. She was anxious. She’d been doing this for the past few days now...
Peanut Butter
Peanut butter. Peanut butter everywhere. In my hair, crusted on my face. Splotches of it on my shirt, smears on my pillow. I sit up in bed and look around. What the hell? Within a second the drunken memory of the night before comes hurtling back to me, and, along with it, the crushing guilt, like an overwhelming blow to my chest. Another binge. And it wasn’t even my damn peanut butter...
Empathy: Some Ramblings in the Dissection of Death and Suffering
The wheezing begins, seemingly out of nowhere, as it usually does as I sit on the cushioned rocking chair in my friend’s basement. The cat, possibly the fattest I’ve ever seen, huffs and puffs, the spasming of the comically rotund belly beyond the control of the poor, obese feline. His head, having the illusion of being rather small but in actuality being the size of a normal cat’s, provides me a window into which I can see the cat that could have been: a healthy cat, considerably smaller and definitively more agile. I imagine what he looks like beneath...
Hard Times Never Left: How the Industrial Revolution Foretold the Digital Age
The Industrial Revolution was a global phenomenon during which technological advancements in means of production, transportation, and communication simultaneously worked together to create an industrial “boom” of sorts that completely upset traditional ways of thinking and living. Taking place from 1733 to 1913, the Industrial Revolution altered every aspect of life as was known at the time, shifting economic, social, cultural, and political paradigms on a scale unprecedented in history...