Hello! I've decided it's been a while since I had a promotion, so one of my stories is going to be free on Kindle this weekend, starting tomorrow. It's about a crash landing on an alien world, an unknown virus, deep oceans, consciousness, and more! If you are slightly interested, might as well check it …
Blue Ruin
As far as revenge stories go, this one was a bit different. When we first meet Dwight, the protagonist, he is sleeping in his car and eating from garbage cans. The movie does a good job of setting the scene fairly quickly, and you find yourself feeling for the character before he even says a …
Mad Max: Fury Road
You remember when you were a kid and you got ahold of your dad's video camera and filmed yourself 'punching' your friends so that they fell off a 'cliff', or putting on your sunglasses and saying something cool? You didn't really know what you were doing, but you'd seen that stuff in movies you liked, …
Aquatic Robot to Seek Life on Europa
Nasa is designing a squid-like robot to explore the oceans beneath Europa's frozen surface. This has me so excited and I just feel happy to be alive while these kinds of things are going on. Imagine being the one to look through this thing's eyes and see the first sight of extra-terrestrial life. I can't …
Music, evolving like an organism
I recently watched this video from one of my favorite YouTube channels, SciShow, and got me off on a thought tangent. I've always wondered about how non-life things could evolve, such as languages and cultures, and music is just the same. It endures the same selection pressures as life, if you take some imaginative interpretations. …
Jonas David 