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Epigraphs and Epitaphs: The Complete Collection (thus far)

To remind you all this is still occasionally an original content writing blog, here is a catalog of the work I’ve completed. This post will be updated as I create more. PLEASE like and share, especially any individual stories you like. The more you read, the more I write!

Short Stories

Dear Lord, Deliver Us

Genre: Horror, Dark Fantasy, Drama

Word Count: 2,000

Synopsis: Howard knows a lot of monsters. They come to see him every night. But the worst of the bunch is the one he sees in the mirror (and no, it’s NOT his reflection).

Carbon Copy

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Word Count: 4,000

Synopsis: Col. Spinelli awakes to begin his 15-year mission… only to be welcomed by himself, much older, and pointing a gun in his face. The question is, which will be worse: the past, or the future?

Wednesday

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fanfiction (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

Word Count: 1,800

Synopsis: A quiet, unassuming day in the life of a quiet, unassuming Englishman. The last such day he’s ever like to have.

The Priory of Shadows

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Weird Fiction, Historical Fiction (1800s Colorado)

Word Count: 7,000

Synopsis: A geological survey is sent to map the uncharted lands of the Colorado Rockies. Only one man returns, telling tales of drugs, violence, and a mysterious cult hidden in the mountains.

#CryUncle

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Word Count: 2,800

Synopsis: What sort of person would hire someone to kill themselves?

Meet Anthony.

What kind of person accepts that kind of contract?

Meet Mercy.

The Nurse’s Tale

Genre: Parable, Drama

Word Count: 1,400

Synopsis: A parable about a rich man willing to do anything and hurt anyone to protect his family.

A Visit to the Vetinari

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Fanfiction (Discworld series)

Word Count: 3,000

Synopsis: Corporal Nobby Nobbs calls on the Patrician over a matter of paperwork. Clocks, weight loss, and politics are discussed.

Blowin’ Through, (Part 2)

Genre: Drama, Low Fantasy, Historical Fiction (American Dustbowl),

Word Count: 9,000

Synopsis: The Kilkelly family finds a drifter on their doorstep and a dust-storm bearing down on their farm. With nothing on hand but time and a bottle, stories start to fly just as fast as the dust.

The Day Club

Genre: Drama, Dark Fantasy, Historical Fiction (Prohibition Era)

Word Count: 5,000

Synopsis: A young runner for the Irish mob in Chicago stumbles across a speakeasy that caters to a special class of clientele.

Survival Horror

Genre: Action, Horror, Post Apocalyptic (Zombie)

Word Count: 1,000

Synopsis: The zombie apocalypse is harder on some sides than on others, and Simon’s running for his life.

The Bear

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Weird Fiction, Historical Fiction (American Western)

Word Count: 6,000

Synopsis: A husband and wife brave the empty frontier of the Dakotas, but find life harder than expected. And sometimes, the worst monsters can only be found where no-one else can see them.

The Final Records of Capt. Angus Blanton, Pirate

Genre: Drama, Horror, Dark Fantasy/Weird Fiction, Historical Fiction (1800s California)

Word Count: 3,000

Synopsis: A pirate crew harrying Spanish missions on the California coast accidentally rob the wrong god.

Kill Zone

Genre: Drama, Crime

Word Count: 2,400

Synopsis: Want to get away with murder? There’s a place where you can. The mysterious “Ferry” can take you there. But it’s not cheap. And then there’s the fine print…

Flash Fiction (All horror under 300 words)

- You Cannot Rest Here

- One by One

- I’m Sorry

- Only Sane Man

- Mark of the Beast

- Note Found in an Old Family Bible

- Don’t Open This Link!

- Unemployment

- Making Friends

- Lock

- The Worst Scarecrow

- Garmosh

- The Lonely Ghost

- Feeling Unmotivated? Try Running Start! ™

- The Monster In My Closet

- The Family Under The Sink

Poetry & Lyrics

- Slenderman: A Lullaby

- The Lost Prayer

- A Raging Case of Sisyphus

Novel (In Progress)

Sanctum Cay

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Weird Fiction, Historical Fiction (1930s Rhode Island)

Word Count: 100k (As of 5/5/16)

Plot Synopsis: It’s 1929, and Margaret St Ives is getting married to a man she’s never met. She’s bound for her new home, on his island of Sanctum Cay. Margaret is hopeful and excited, but not unduly reluctant. After all, the people are friendly, yet odd. The island; placid, yet foreboding. Her fiancee; kind, but distant. Everything is pleasant on the surface, but Margaret can’t help but peer beneath. And something from beneath may just be reaching back…

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

#creative writing #writing #horror #short story #mystery #suspense #fiction

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THE BEAR | 1.01: SYSTEM Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richie Jerimovich Jeremy Allen White as Carmy Berzatto

rubyleaf

Is this anything?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

no more historic events this decade that is ENOUGH, i’m putting my foot down

alettertofutureme

History is not done with us yet my friend

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

i knew posting this in 2022 was risky but holy fucking shit

thebibliosphere

Why must I be awake.

thebibliosphere

#another victim of the woke agenda

@natalieironside what's it like being one of the funniest mother fuckers on the planet?

natalieironside

I wish it paid more

thepromiscuousfinger

argumate

watching the documentary on the OceanGate Titan disaster and it's striking how Stockton Rush wanted to emulate Elon Musk and in many ways he did, identifying weight as the core constraint of submarine operations (lifting and hauling the sub around as being the primary expense) and basing the entire concept around making it as light as possible, but then he overrode every engineer who told him in explicit terms that it was going to pancake, and it pancaked.

argumate

also quite reminiscent of Richard Branson's space experiments, which did at least have Burt Rutan as a designer, but the same breed of dickhead CEO at the head.

argumate

goddamn the Titan had acoustic monitoring sensors and you can literally hear the carbon fiber in the hull cracking louder and louder as they descend on test dives, but the CEO was angry that they were even bothering to monitor it and refused to accept that it was dangerous, and he wasn't just risking other people, he was on the damn thing himself! he was just that deep in denial and unwilling to accept reality.

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DISCLAIMER: intense yap session from someone PUTTING THINGS INTO LAYMEN’S TERMS to make it easier for everyone to understand 🙂‍↕️

As someone who’s Obsessed™️ with this tragically yet sadly predictable story, we’d like to take a moment and yap about how crazy insane the Real Time Acoustic Monitoring System for Carbon Fiber for a DEEP SEA PRESSURE VEHICLE is.

First of all. The fact that Stockton Rush decided to make a DEEP SEA PRESSURE VESSEL out of carbon fiber, a material that is famous for its tensile (pulling) strength NOT pressure (push). Pressure. Which is very much in the DEEP SEA. Where the VEHICLE is going (if we remember correctly, the pressure in the ocean increases by 10 atmospheres of pressure- ie 1 atmosphere of pressure being what the atmospheric pressure is at sea level -for every 10 meters you descend. Space, on the other hand, is between 1 and 0 atmospheres of pressure). The ocean wants to squish you into biological paste so, so, so, so, so very badly.

Everyone and their mother are telling Stockton Rush that using carbon fiber is a Shitass Bad Idea. Not only does logically it make no sense to use (again, good with PULLING not BEING PUSHED, which is what pressure is) but it just hasn’t been tested the way other materials, such as titanium, have been. We know what the failure point of titanium is. We know when Catastrophic Failure happens in titanium. We know how many cycles of fatigue/stress titanium can withstand before Catastrophic Failure happens. When know how titanium behaves Before That Happens.

Carbon fiber?? We don’t know those things about carbon fiber, when it comes to DEEP SEA PRESSURE FATIGUE/STRESS. It’s a material used for PULLING not PUSHING. So it hasn’t even been tested for DEEP SEA PRESSURE. Because it’s not meant for deep sea pressure. And we’re about to show you how very Not meant for DEEP SEA PRESSURE that carbon fiber is.

Here’s a generic chat that gives you an idea of what we mean when we say Titanium Is Predictable. This chart isn’t about titanium specifically, but we can pretend it is. You can look at the colors and understand what the chart is telling you. We can see the curve and what’s a Warning and what’s Bad. The red is Bad. You don’t want to be in the red. The curve of the chart shows that you have time to predict the red before it goes to red.

Here’s an actual chart of titanium under stress, along with a steel and aluminum. Ough wow!! Look at those curves!! You don’t have to know exactly what you’re looking at to see and understand that the curves happen before the lines “flatline”. There’s a predictability before the lines of the chart “go flat”. This means you can understand the integrity of the titanium you’re using, and whether or not it’s safe to use, whether it can be worked on, or if it needs to be retired altogether.

Now let’s look at carbon fiber.

There’s no curve. Carbon fibers works, until suddenly it doesn’t. There’s no prediction for catastrophic failure- it just happens.

AND STOCKTON RUSH IS USING THIS MATERIAL IN AN APPLICATION IT SPECIFICALLY DOESNT WORK WITH (pushing- NOT pulling).

Well. The thing about Stockton Rush is that he’s going to Do What He Wants. So he’s going to build his vessel out of expired carbon fiber. Because it’s cheaper to transport and manufacture (remember, he planned on having a whole fleet of these things). He wanted to spend as little money as possible while making back as much profit as possible.

And Stockton Rush, with his background in aviation (imagine. for a moment. if a NASCAR driver decided to make a commercial airplane, and only used his knowledge of racing cars to do it. because that’s essentially what’s happening here) decided to use a Real Time Acoustic Monitoring System. Because carbon fiber is made up is a bunch of threads of carbon “braided” (for lack of better term) together, when the UNPREDICTABLE- WE ALL SEE THAT CHART. WHERES THE CURVE RUSH- catastrophic failure happens, the threads “snap” apart as they break. So his thinking process is, the Real Time Acoustic Monitoring System would be able to “predict” when the carbon fiber was going to fail catastrophically.

For shits and giggles, here’s applications acoustic monitoring systems are used for:

Please note that DEEP SEA PRESSURE VEHICLES are not on there. Damn near the rest of this IS in planes, however.

And. C’mon. COME ON!!!!! LOOK at that chart!!!! Does it look like predicting the catastrophic failure of the carbon fiber is even going to matter?!? WHEN YOURE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GOD DAMNED OCEAN?!? Catastrophic failure at the depths the Titanic is at means IMPLOSION. The Real Time Monitoring System is a fart in the wind. It’s Safety Theater (<- you will hear that a LOT when you watch documentaries and the investigation).

Except.

✨ EXCEPT ✨

It actually fucking worked.

The Real Time Monitoring System actually DID work and actually DID predict the catastrophic failure of the carbon fiber before the catastrophic failure even happened.

And this is HUGE.

This is GROUND BREAKING.

This is the INNOVATION that Stockton Rush has had a hard on for since day one.

Except they’re loosing money. And as OP said, Stockton Rush was upset that the carbon fiber had the audacity to snap, crackle and pop at all.

He was so mad in fact that, as we found out during the US Coast Guards’ investigation, Stockton specifically had the graphs plotted for each dive in such a way so that the RTMS’ alert to the carbon fiber’s lack of structural integrity wasn’t readily obvious (instead of the graph showing the curves of stress fatigue, they were plotted to show depth with time).

Anyways. The fact that his crack pipe idea of using an acoustic monitoring system to predict a famously unpredictable material in an application it’s very much NOT used for and it actually WORKED is phenomenal. Unfortunately, Stockton Rush didn’t set out to find a way to make carbon fiber a viable material for deep sea pressure vessels, he set out to be “big swinging dick” like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. So he didn’t care, and how he’s dead because of his own hubris.

@voidofteeth our Boat Explodey buddy 🥫💥

argumate

thank you for writing this in old school tumblr “buckle up fuckos and learn you a thing” diction, it is indeed incredible that the man invented a clever warning system that accurately told him his idea sucked and then ignored it, scroll of truth style

umpireofpopculture

wingkink

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

xiaq

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

theehorsepusssy

mymodernmet

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draconic-neko

Okay, so, have I been missing something incredibly obvious this whole time? In Guards, Guards!

Errol, who's the tiny dragon with way more fight in him than his size would suggest he's capable of, even if he was that belligerent.

Against The Dragon which is huge, majestic, in possession (at least in theory) of a mighty hoard of wealth, typically associated with the nobility, and finds herself rather taken by this small ball of Fight.

That's a metaphor for Sam and Sybil, isn't it?

It's only taken me 20-fucking-years.

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