Stories

[Short story] Hadrian the Bandit

He feels nervous about going out. It took only one day to recover from his injury, but several months to muster enough courage to step out of his room. His robes have ridiculously long sleeves that cover his hands, and a winding sash that coils thrice around the torso. Hadrian prefers loose pants for his legs to move freely, but also because the robes impart a flavor that is too effeminate and rich for his taste. He grew up in the streets and he was good at fighting.

[Short story] Thyme

Here’s a completely mundane story about the time Teresa made tea from thyme.

[Short story] Ladders

Content Warning: Suicide

[Short Story] Grocery Store Parenting

Today I just witnessed something incredible.

[Short story] To Choose Hell

Light spreads all around. I look at my hands, then at the people surrounding me, and notice there are no shadows. So, this is what my skin color looks like. Everyone is naked, each one the same silhouette when compared to the light. Instinctively everyone gravitates towards a spot. Their legs walk, but there is no distinguishable floor. I head to a random direction, and after some time I stand still. As I look around, I assume that we have formed a perfect circle, infinitely huge. I can see a line of humans across from me, far in distance yet clearly defined in my vision. The line, wobbly and diverse, containing different heights and genders, extends beyond either side, slowly curving into the section where I stand, and beyond myself the line rejoins from where my eye had first wandered.

Essays

Do aliens exist?

If you want me to answer this, then you’ll have to agree on one thing: don’t interrupt me until I say, “I’m done.” I’m going to ask a bunch of rhetorical questions you’re not supposed to answer. Do you agree with this stipulation?

An overwrite mechanism for machine- and human-friendly API documentation

There’s always issues with API documentation. It gets outdated quickly, it’s tedious and halfwhat standardized, and there’s not enough engineers who can write, nor enough writers who are techy enough. Automated documentation is useless, while human-crafted examples and descriptions take too long for the modern breakneck release cycle.

On Tense and Time

Controlling the narrative of time is the purpose of the comedian, the storyteller, and the writer.