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Poem / Non-Fiction

May 08, 2019

Reads: 2970

Comments: 2

The Poetic Dreamers House

Real life and real people struggle. Everybody says they’re okay, how many of us actually are? Read More

Tags: god, life, help, real, existential

Poem / Poetry

May 02, 2019

Reads: 142

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

A poem I wrote after taking an existentialism class which put my head into a tail spin. Read More

Tags: philosophy, mind, gone, existential, disappearing

Poem / Poetry

April 10, 2019

Reads: 148

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Time and Death have an eternity-long disagreement. Read More

Tags: death, poetry, poem, time, existential

Book / Other

April 10, 2019

A brief. Read More

Tags: life, short, story, humans, existential

Petit essai sur les vertus du silence, quand on est moi ou vous, et prise de conscience brutale sur la nature de l'existence. Read More

Tags: education, mystical, existential

Poem / Romance

February 25, 2019

Reads: 150

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A poem about the eternity of love Read More

Tags: love, death, life, universe, existential

Book / Other

February 01, 2019

Reads: 5848

Comments: 1

Shelves: 3

The Booksie Classic House

{Historical Fiction/ Vampire / Romance / *Bisexual Protagonist*} "Do you believe in monsters, Elek?" Elek tilted his head in confusion, knitting his eyebrows together and swallowing hard. "Uh, no, not really sir. They're just stories you tell to children to keep them in… Read More

Tags: vampire, gay, romance, existential, gay-themes

Poem / Poetry

December 27, 2018

Reads: 143

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A little something I wrote today. I need to exorcise all the pain. Read More

Tags: depression, question, loneliness, questioning, existential

Evil on the beach. Read More

Tags: fantasy, dark, horror, beach, existential

The poem is a reflection on the pointlessness of life and perhaps ultimately, the reason we still live it. Read More

Tags: death, life, existential

‘Only by living on his terms could he die a satisfactory death, for even death had to have a meaning, as much as life, for birth and death were the beginning and end of the sentence and one had to fill that sentence with meaningful words. If one did not,… Read More

Tags: love, loss, life, existential

A play - What's it all about? Birth. Life. Work. Death. Love. Hate. Tomatoes. Tea. What's it all about? That's up to you. Chris Bradbury takes another trip through the absurd and asks whether life is all worth it. Read More

Tags: loss, birth, life, play, existential

You have brought to me nothing but pain and disappointment. You cannot hold down a job. You have no friends. You hate the world for no more reason that it has the gall to exist. You are just so indifferent towards all the things that you are supposed to love… Read More

Tags: love, loss, life, existential

The girl with the cleaver hesitated... Read More

Tags: scary, existential, female-protagonist

Well-placed and familiar characters face existential crises, realization, and enlightenment in an abstract screenplay about free will. Read More

Tags: drama, screenplay, existential

Can you fly in your dreams? Read More

Tags: fantasy, spirituality, dreams, imagination, existential

Book / Other

November 07, 2017

Reads: 547

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: life, space, universe, existence, existential

Short Story / Other

November 01, 2017

Reads: 337

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A desperate musing into the futility of life and the contradiction of infinity. Read More

Tags: thoughts, infinite, existential, existentialism, musings

A short story about freedom. Read More

Tags: freedom, existential, short-story

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First person narrative of a depressed man's experience with isolation and neglect Read More

Tags: loneliness, solitude, nihilism, existential, existentialism

Poem / Poetry

November 02, 2016

Reads: 511

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A short poem about monotony and tedium of what we are told is the perfect life. Read More

Tags: philosophy, logic, existential, inquisitive

A poem about how we perceive time if we get lost in daily routines. Read More

Tags: life, time, existential, introspective

Short Story / Fantasy

June 12, 2016

Reads: 732

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A being is suddenly manifested into existence with a fully formed mind equal to that of a grown human. This being has no idea what it means to exist and is lost in a universe with seemingly nothing inside it except this being and it's own mind. Read More

Tags: fantasy, world, reality, existential, far-out

just a doohickey about extisential indentity crises. Read More

Tags: existential

Poem / Poetry

August 07, 2015

Reads: 372

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A poem that questions why we are placed here. Read More

Tags: dark, relationships, poem, deep, regret, abstract, psychology, drowning, existential

Poem / Poetry

August 06, 2015

Reads: 341

Comments: 3

The Booksie Classic House

A poem about existence and memory. Read More

Tags: dark, sad, psychological, depressing, deep, psychology, existential

Ideas as I stare into the midnight sky. Read More

Tags: life, reflecting, existential

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