Blaise Lucey
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Generation Generalization: Millennials Are The Same As You
Reading Time: ~5 minutes It didn’t start with the amazingly anecdotal “What Is It About the Twentysomethings?” published in The New York Times last August – which featured a nauseating collage of scrawny young kids that looked like the results of a 12th grade art project – but this sure as hell made it official. Don’t get involved, I…
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Destination Inc.
http://www.thesquawkback.com/2011/07/destination-inc.html
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Election Season
http://twinenterprises.com/the_fear_of_monkeys/issue_eight/election_season.htm
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The Never Ending Parties of Our United States
Reading Time: ~3 minutes If you’re reading this, you’re probably in Commons and you forgot to call a friend for company. If you’re reading this and you’re sitting next to a friend, that’s kind of awkward, isn’t it? Unless it’s lunch, I guess. Maybe you accidentally picked this up thinking it was the New York…
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Hope and Change Are No Match for Our Generation
Reading Time: ~3 minutes On a potentially fateful Wednesday, President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address. I sat back, listened to it, and mentally dismissed everything as an exaggeration or an empty promise. It took me a day to consider why I possessed this defensive mechanism. The answer is simple: our generation…
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The Cruise
Reading Time: ~10 minutes The boat set sail early in the morning, on a summer day. Mark boarded it first. His wife, Linda, followed. The children came last, jostling each other other in their excitement. “Stop that,” Mark said to them, embarrassed. They either didn’t hear or him or ignored him. Tom pushed Alice and…
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The Island
Reading Time: ~15 minutes The floating island was home to several hundred men, women, and children. Beyond it, a floating mist perpetually floated, where clouds clung together like errant dreams. Rivers squirmed through the tropical air, bubbling in the misted sunshine, and spiraled off into infinity. Long, endless vines hung from the grassy edges of…
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The Elevator
Reading Time: ~5 minutes Available at http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-elevator-by-blaise-lucey/.
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