Thanksgiving 2023

“Where have ye been?” Lukas asks me, looking up from his book. Even though I’m not working on the Clouds Aflame series anymore, Lukas and I are still good friends, and we see each other quite often. “I was celebrating a holiday with my family,” I say. “St. Columban’s Day?” asks Alynn. She’s paying less …

The Torture of Loneliness

Sorry for not posting last week. I was isolating (again) because my mom had Covid. She’s fine now, thank God, but I’m beginning to think that isolation is a form of psychological torture.I consider myself an introvert. Unfortunately, human beings are social animals, and turns out that no one does very well when they can’t be around other people. After a few days of not being able to leave my house, my brain just sort of…stopped working.At first, you think that everything’s going to be fine. Yo […]