Leave it to a Gen-Z kid to learn a profound truth while composing an Instagram caption. I took three photos in my short walk. The leaves were tossing along the side of the road that leads to my back door, so I stepped out to taste the wind, as it were. Barefoot, I putszed about … Continue reading Homeland
Author: cogitorbis
I'm a (mostly) speculative fiction writer, a dungeon master, a Christian, a science enthusiast, a lover of language, and, I hope, an educator of sorts.
The Smoke Rises
Every so often, at the intersection of US Route 19 and US Route 60, where I live, they start cutting trees down again. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it; it's just another time for a column of smoke to start up; I know they have to do it between June … Continue reading The Smoke Rises
A Rabbit Hole
It's always a good day when I fall down a YouTube rabbit hole that makes me want to be productive. Today, I've been doing a lot of things. I've set a post in the bottom of my brother's mannequin so we can use it for costume building. I've shaped my horns for a tiefling cosplay … Continue reading A Rabbit Hole
The New Mundane
My favorite part of pretty much any work of speculative fiction is finding out what daily life looks like for the people who live in the world. That’s probably because worldbuilding is my main focus in writing—it’s what I do best. I think that it’s in the quiet moments of a story that we really … Continue reading The New Mundane
I've Been Thinking 