End 2021 with my satirical, bold predictions for 2022. Happy New Year!
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Terminus (A Litter Nation)
Tag: postapocalyptic
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Terminus (A Litter Nation)
The year is 2022, and humanity is nearly snuffed out by the mountainous blankets of irresponsibly discarded, infectious disease prevention masks. In the narrow pathways between towering mask mounds, the few children still in existence play a darkly amended version of Rock, Paper, Scissors called Covid, Climate Change, Crushed by Maskalanche. The viral epidemic was [...]
Excerpt from Diminishing Return by Joseph D. Newcomer
The following is an excerpt from my last novel. It is one of the parts of the book that makes me proudest of the message I was attempting to convey. I feel as though it is even more relevant today than the day I wrote it. If you feel the same, please share it with [...]
Octothorpe Oblivion
There is no point in distinguishing lies from the truth once it is all confined to perception. Minds made up to believe or reject without regard for evidence cannot be persuaded by even their own personal witness. Accept what we prefer, reject all else, this is the motto of our time, as it was in [...]
The Paradoxical Dichotomy of Logic and Hope
We are now weathered by the damning knowledge of years; by the shift from blind confidence to grim, pragmatic understanding. Now, we counter the disappointing and inevitable with doomed longing for all outcomes to defy the proof of experience despite our familiarity. In the past, in the blissful ignorance of youth, I always thought I [...]
Joseph D. Newcomer 