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Book / Other

April 06, 2018

Reads: 319

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

"Do you believe in monsters, Elek?" Elek tilted his head in confusion, knitting his eyebrows together and swallowing hard. "Uh, no, not really. They're just stories you tell to children to keep them in bed through the night."As he finished, Ambrus huffed, amused. "What if I were to tell… Read More

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

Script / Other

March 27, 2018

Reads: 87

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

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: 87

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: life, space, universe, existence, existential

Short Story / Other

November 01, 2017

Reads: 67

Shelves: 2

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

Short Story / Horror

October 31, 2017

Reads: 56

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A short story about freedom. Read More

Tags: freedom, existential, short-story

existential Read More

Tags: existential

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: 101

Shelves: 2

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

This story is about a man deconstruction his past and evaluating his future in the last ten minutes of his childhood before he turns 18 and reaches adulthood. Read More

Tags: existential

Short Story / Fantasy

June 12, 2016

Reads: 273

Comments: 1

Shelves: 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: 199

Comments: 1

Shelves: 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: 158

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A poem about existence and memory. Read More

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

Short Story / Memoir

May 28, 2015

Reads: 143

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Ideas as I stare into the midnight sky. Read More

Tags: life, reflecting, existential

Book / Young Adult

April 20, 2015

Reads: 339

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

First chapter excerpt from self-published novel, If Butterflies Could See. Meet Sophia: Shy yet precocious, charming though self-obsessed, privileged but sad, your otherwise typical nineteen-year-old Brown University student. About to start her second year of college, tragedy hits when her autistic brother falls seventy-two feet off a cliff to his… Read More

Tags: death, fiction, poetry, adult, music, tears, sad, girl, age, tragedy, young, woman, butterflies, coming, literary

About humans departure from nature and perhaps intended designs of our species, and this poem also touches on some fundamentals of existential thought. Read More

Tags: existential

Short Story / Other

January 27, 2015

Reads: 254

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A man and his thoughts Read More

Tags: existential

Short Story / Fantasy

January 11, 2015

Reads: 171

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A short surrealist story about three men occupying their respective worlds Read More

Tags: fantasy, fiction, existential, surreal, metaphorical, surrealism, surrealist, michael_ende

April 11th, 1954 was presumed to be the most boring day in human history. They're wrong. Read More

Tags: poetry, universe, existential

Random short pieces of poetry I came up with at 12:30 AM! Read More

Tags: death, hope, life, man, sweet, dreams, fear, coffee, bitter, bittersweet, existence, cruel, existential, optimism, pessimism

I've just started writing this piece, it's an edited section that i'm looking for content feedback on. Absurdism, Existentialist journey... Read More

Tags: short_story, non-fiction, existential, narrative

Miscellaneous / Fantasy

January 10, 2014

Reads: 145

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

a weird dream sequence that i had about a house in a boat and a mysterious girl? Read More

Tags: fantasy, horror, mystery, dream, existential

Short Story / Other

December 15, 2013

Reads: 242

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A man loses his wife, which gives him insight into his own life. Read More

Tags: death, sad, existential

Book / Science Fiction

December 09, 2013

Reads: 814

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

On a solitary mission to reunite with a long-lost love near a distant star, cosmonaut Mason Henaghan makes a sanity-shattering discovery about the supposed limitless of Space and is confronted with the startling truth behind the Cosmos Read More

Tags: space, universe, cosmos, star, scifi, isolation, mission, existential, spaceship, outerspace, blackhole

Poem / Poetry

October 11, 2013

Reads: 113

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A desperate soul in search of the courage to confront another. It's just a brief glimpse from a very broad perspective. Read More

Tags: poetry, relationship, fear, existential

Marvin, a humble piece bread, aspires to be toasted. Read More

Tags: horror, death, despair, failure, existential

Existential meandering in an urban environment. Read More

Tags: fiction, short_story, existential, kurt_nimmo

A traveler wanders through life discovering the power of knowledge, getting deep into the world of thought. The more he reads and the more people he maintains discussions with, the wider his reality becomes, the more he feels he is approaching his peek. Basically, just tell me how appealing you… Read More

Tags: reading, classic, novels, popular, nihilism, existential, lots, dostoevsky, camus, nihilist, lermontov, gardot

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