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Broken Glass

Posted on April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 by Rob

We live in a society that really, really likes its dreams.  You see it everywhere, from the TV Lifestyles of Awesome to the much more subtle water cooler rumblings every time someone wistfully sketches out their lottery-winning plans.  We make big decisions for the pretty pictures in our heads that get us through the day.

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Failure’s Fortune

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Rob

The thing about writing is that, from time to time, you must confront the simple fact that what you’re writing – and, perhaps, have always been writing – is shallow, boring tripe. Stories stitched together out of internalized cultural tropes that don’t have a whole lot to do with the weirdnesses of real life.

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Art is Propaganda

Posted on March 17, 2019March 19, 2019 by Rob

Hi.  My name is Robert Warren, and I’ve been writing professionally now for the better part of twenty years, and it occurred to me that you and I haven’t been properly introduced.  Welcome.  Glad to know you.  There’s some drinks out in the kitchen, please make yourself comfortable and let’s chat.

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StoriesScarsRobert Warren@StoriesScars·
7 Jan 2020

Just a New Year's reminder: In 2030, everything you're outraged by today will seem quaint and naively charming in retrospect, like a simple child's fever dream. Things will be far weirder.

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StoriesScarsRobert Warren@StoriesScars·
17 Jun 2019

That feeling when the thing you've been worrying about doesn't happen, but you've been busy playing out the stress events in your head, so it may as well HAVE had happened, because you've given yourself all the psychic baggage anyway. Ugh.

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StoriesScarsRobert Warren@StoriesScars·
17 Jun 2019

Ohfergawdsake. https://twitter.com/VPestilenZ/status/1140437217619390465

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