jlsoren56Dec 27, 20219 min readDecember 2021 InterviewI'd like to share with you an exclusive interview in which I recently took part. With what publication, you ask? Mind Your Own Damned...
jlsoren56Jun 29, 20217 min readA Ghost in the Abyss: Part 10Dawn was a haze of fire behind a sky smeared with the souls of fifty-thousand laborers, burnt up as fuel for an economy they otherwise...
jlsoren56Jun 23, 202114 min readA Ghost in the Abyss: Parts 8 and 9Moe had moved Rachel's body as carefully as possible, and was now wheeling it through the door which opened onto the floor of the...
jlsoren56Jun 15, 202112 min readA Ghost in the Abyss: Parts 6 and 7“Take a seat,” Mayor Donovan said. Moe did as he was commanded, dropping numbly into the shiny leather chair. He did not speak, but...
jlsoren56Jun 8, 202113 min readA Ghost in the Abyss Parts: 4 and 5A week passed by, measured in sweat and malaise. The dead bodies piled up like tally marks, counting out the hours Moe and Billie toiled...
jlsoren56Jun 2, 202112 min readA Ghost in the Abyss Parts: 2 and 3Part: 2 A man Moe's age shouldn't wheeze from climbing three flights of stairs; but a man his age–or any age, for that matter–shouldn't...
jlsoren56May 29, 20211 min readTwenty-five to Life; or, An Ode to EmploymentTired yet you cannot sleep. Overwhelmed and in too deep. Twenty-five to life they said, but death is so much quicker. Deviled by the life...
jlsoren56May 27, 20216 min readA Ghost In The Abyss: Part 1A slave in the most fundamental sense of the word, Moe was responsible for picking strange fruit from the garden–which was his pleasant...