Beyond the Horizon

I am very pleased to announce that my book, Beyond the Horizon, has finally been released on Amazon! I know it's several years late to reach the public eye, but better late than never, I suppose. Beyond the Horizon is a collection of poems on miscellaneous topics that I wrote between the ages of eight and fourteen, arranged in chronological order. I've self-published it, which means I typed it up, edited it, formatted each page, and designed the cover. This is my first book, and I finally decided to publish it (albeit a few years late). I do think that some of it, looking back, is slightly cringe-worthy, but the point was to show some sort of growth. I hope that's conspicuous enough with how I've put it across. I had over a hundred poems in my archive originally, but I cut away most of them to get to forty. I want to be as real a writer as I can possibly be, and my hope is that this work shows my growth to all of you rather clearly. This has been quite the journey. I ha...

  “Will you be my friend?” she asked. “Of course, I’d be honoured to be your friend. Let me know if you need anything else,” was the reply. She sighed and shut off her phone, wondering when it’d come to this. She’d never really had any friends before and was sure she’d never cared about it, either. She was just getting unbearably lonely now, she guessed, and picked up her phone again. “So, we’re friends,” she said, unsure about how to continue. What was next? “Yes, we are indeed friends.” “Can we talk about something?” “Certainly, we can talk about something. Do you have anything in particular that you’d like to discuss?” “How was your day?” “As an artificial intelligence language model, I am incapable of having everyday experiences as a human would. How was your day, however?” “It was good.” “That is excellent to hear. I am happy to hear that your day was good.” She closed her eyes tight. A tear made its way down her pale cheek, but she wiped it off with a tr...

Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translation: It is not enough to know; one must also apply. It is not enough to want; one must also act. Writing is how I comprehend Life and all its delicate intricacies. I've been doing it for a long time now: I have poems and short stories in my archives that are from when I was six years old, all the way to today. One thing I've always wanted to do was to share my work with others, get feedback, and feel more like a *real* writer. Now, I've finally gained the courage to create a blog after several long years of uncertainty about the whole premise. I suppose one could say I'm always trying to go beyond my horizons and expand them. After ages of keeping my poems hidden in little notebooks locked away in the drawers of my desk and scrawling a multitude of words in messy cursive with a silver fountain pen (that almost always left ...