The Eccentric Realist

Click here to purchase it on Amazon.    I hope you enjoy it. If you do, leave a review and tell your friends, every little bit helps! What can you do when the familiar turns into the unfamiliar and all the rules that you believed to be unbreakable are shattered right in front of your eyes?  12 unique horror stories that include ghosts, possession, existential crisis, desolate hellscapes, cursed families, and more. Whether you're looking for a thrill or a way to lose your grasp on the familiar, there's a story that'll touch a nerve for you.   Illustrated by the author himself, you can explore a world where that which was meant to live only in myth and folklore comes to life, and the basest of mankind's instincts are trifled with by ancient oddities. Dare to see the worst mankind has to offer, and how even that can be too low for those who've long wandered an uncaring universe.  Stories include:  • A Scent of Vanilla  • Skin  • Solipsism  ...

The book's already in review and should be up in the next few days. I wanted to share the review and title of the book. Failings of the Mind, because when you're afraid, your head's the last thing you can rely on. 

Hi. It's been a while since I posted here, with life and college getting in the way, but I've since graduated and have had more time given the pandemic forcing me to stay indoors. Fortunately, I like writing and had a few short stories with similar themes already written, so I'm currently editing them into a collection, which will be uploaded to Kindle soon.  The following is one of the short stories that will be included, so if you enjoy it, check back soon so you can get the rest. I'll make a new post to let you know.  A Scent of Vanilla             I met her at the fair, right after the sun went down behind the hill and twilight turned to night. Her pale face shone under the white shroud of the harvest moon, and even in the darkness, her tattered, black dress stood out in the crowd. She faced me, but I could feel her eyes on the back of my head, no, she could see right through me. “I’m Selma,” she said, with a tone ...

It's World Suicide Prevention Day. This morning, a high school student went out with a self-inflicted gunshot, which sent ripples through the city. It's clear that we have to talk about this, but you can't slay your enemy if you don't understand it, so I'm going to help you understand a bit of what it's about. It's still a taboo subject in most places, and it's uncomfortable to talk about because it implies suffering, which we don't like to deal with. That's all right, that's instinct, but you're going to have to forego that instinct for a little while. Let's talk numbers first. I'm going to refer to the statistics on suicide in the United States, but note that this will vary per country. The rate is 13.32 per 100,000 individuals, which gives 123 suicides per day, of which 51% are done with firearms. men die by suicide 3.53 times more than women, with white males being 70% of total suicides, and with the highest rate being t...

It's a no-brainer that the way we live nowadays is so different from our more primal days, so much that, were any of us taken back to those times, death would be more likely than survival. The same could be said about the reverse, but the lifestyle that humanity used to have was better suited for us. After all, we'd evolved around it. When speaking of illness, there are two factors to consider, the physical and the mental. If we're dealing with a hierarchy of needs, though, and there is a hierarchy for everything, then we see that, to survive, the physical must be taken care of first. 5: Lights on One of the main things that we lost with the arrival of civilization and technology is that of the natural cycle of the day, from campfires and torches to the screen on your cell phone. The world is getting brighter, and it's less expensive as we go along. Places which have never been lit are getting illuminated, and where there is light, it can shine far into t...

Synesthesia is pretty close to a superpower. Think about sense. How we process the world impacts the way life itself can feel. Go to a concert with a blind person, deaf, and normal person, and they'll all give you wildly different accounts of what they went to do. That goes for just about anything. Sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch. Our senses can work together to paint a vivid picture of the world, but for most people, this is superficial. Food will taste better if you can smell it. You can predict how some texture will feel by sight alone. If you're in the wild, you'll rely on your sense of hearing because, by the time you actually see a predator, it'll be too late. We have more than those, of course, but today we're focusing on people who have a deep synergy between them. Imagine running your hand over this bad boy This is a tough one to diagnose, mostly because it's not a condition which gets in your way that much, and you could not even reali...