Time is a funny thing. The linear progression of our lives from one moment to the next, measurable only through our memories of what was compared to our perceptions of what is, against our hope of what will be. We all march the inexorable goose step into the future and none of us are immune from the ravages of time. For all that, we constantly try to bargain, cheat, or equivocate, with Time. We...
there he is a monster with a penis but that’s redundant all monsters have a penis all penises are attached to monsters right? so there he is a monster at fifteen a predator walled away - kept from the good people of the world by police, bars, most importantly social shaming we have no room for monsters now zero tolerance and punishment is more satisfying than education making examples of a...
A Statue, A Book, a Billboard What does a Confederate statue and a book have in common? A lot, according to a billboard I saw today. Pittsburgh is a fairly progressive town. It’s one of the reasons why Carey and I fit in so well here. Get just a few miles outside of the city, though, and things start to change drastically. For my Florida friends, you can liken it to the greater Jacksonville...
Racism Today No one admits to being a racist, but racism is alive and well today. Unless you’re a real piece of work you don’t walk around making racist remarks, you don’t disparage another race intentionally, and you don’t go out of your way to antagonize, belittle, or marginalize someone of another race. We don’t have lynchings as a regular thing nowadays and we don’t see the pointy white hats...
Ron Sparks is a technology professional, science fiction and fantasy author and poet living in Zurich, Switzerland. His latest book "ONI: Satellite Earth Series Book 1" is available on Amazon.com.