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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: 65

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

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Short Story / Fantasy

June 12, 2016

Reads: 217

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

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Poem / Poetry

August 07, 2015

Reads: 180

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: 133

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: 122

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: 245

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

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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: 193

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A man and his thoughts Read More

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Short Story / Fantasy

January 11, 2015

Reads: 134

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: 129

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: 204

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: 576

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: 98

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

Book / Memoir

January 20, 2013

Reads: 113

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is a semi-autobiographical account of my turbulent twenties. Will be posting segments of chapters and other tidbits as I write them. Read More

Tags: adult, philosophy, drama, comedy, art, growing, existential, ennui

Book / Fantasy

July 18, 2012

Reads: 688

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

In the Words of Good Living, the holy text by which Amian disciples live their lives, Owndiah promises each of his followers a peace that surpasseth all human understanding. And when Brine the disciple left his homeland and traveled to the desert monastery of Valley Rock to serve Owndiah and… Read More

Tags: dark, humor, paranormal, religious, war, magic, adventure, spirituality, supernatural, sword, psychological, thriller, hunting, axe, action

Short Story / Literary Fiction

July 09, 2012

Reads: 125

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

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A man ponders the desertion of the people in his life when he needs them most. (approx. 900 words) Read More

Tags: people, angst, clueless, friends, abandonment, smart, existential

What if they gave a mystery and nobody came? Read More

Tags: mystery, alienation, existential

This is a grimy piece of science fiction. Possibly still a word in progress. Read More

Tags: fiction, flash, science, existential, crisis

A short story about a young girl in a coffee shop who meets a skinny young boy with an existential crisis and a fondness for snow. As their conversation develops, the girl finds out how afraid the boy is of being forgotten, and his suspicions that somehow he is only… Read More

Tags: death, philosophy, short_story, reality, snow, fear, coffee, memory, emotional, conversation, footprints, existential, traces

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