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The bathroom as a place of silent reflection.1
“The bathroom makes a philosopher of us all.”
OR
“He was the great bathroom philosopher.”
And tie philosophy into excrement in the toilet.
I wish I could experience the fullness of my being in a brief moment that lasts forever.
Christmas2. He’d tallied up the cost one day, and determined that, in general, one breaks even; you tend to receive in value what you’ve given to others. Well, he thought, why go through all that effort to break even when you could just do nothing and wind up in exactly the same state.
Luck is merely the perception of a pattern in the midst of chaos, the one-in-a-million favorable outcome already predicted by the cold hard numbers of statistics.
For anyone who’s had a bad year3, I’d like you to remember the Phoenix, for, just as the mythical bird is borne of its own dying ashes, so too can you hope that 2014 will be a good year, born from the painful ashes of 2013. Happy New Year, everyone!
Story4 about a guy who, in waking and sleeping, jumps about through various stages of his life, and maybe how this ultimately serves some purpose, makes it so he can do something synchronized across different times.
Light fractured along the surface of the glass5 like shards of stained glass5.
Golden light sparkled like needles, making Jared squint.
Long jagged crystals of light jutted through the glass surface.
He stared at the sun until the light began to hurt his eyes, then returned his gaze to the computer, where a shifting inkblot followed him wherever he looked.
Footnotes
1. I think I was just being silly here.
2. I was fleshing out a potential character, not expressing my own views about Christmas. I’m not this miserly, I promise!
3. I ultimately intended to post this on Facebook for New Year’s Day, then promptly forgot to do so. Oh well, now I can post it here instead.
4. Sometimes, I know right off the bat that what I’m freewriting is going to be a potential story.
5. Not my proudest moment as a writer… I guess my subconscious was feeling redundant that day. When I wrote this, I was attending a celebratory dinner with co-workers and had decided to pull out my notebook, zone out and focus on the way the light was reflecting off the glass table (doh, I said that word again!)
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