Dyllon Rodillon
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Jack of all trades, master of none.
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Retirement
Retirement, what an odd word to be saying this young. I know I've been through a lot over the years. But I feel great, my body feels fantastic and my mind is still sharp as ever. But here we are. Deep in the Washington bush near the Canadian border I have my own little town. I built everything here with my own two hands.
By Dyllon Rodillon4 years ago in Fiction
Training in Tibet
"Steady your breathing, concentrate, control your heart rate" my teacher instructs me. I'm seated on top of this frozen pond, in the mountains of Tibet, basically naked, in December. On the outside I'm trying my best to keep my composure, but internally my body is screaming that it's cold. Thanks body, I wasn't aware it would be cold outside today. I'm really trying my hardest to resist shivering. I am the master of my body.
By Dyllon Rodillon4 years ago in Fiction
Short story for the green light challenge
"Jordan! Wake your ass up!" I hear from the distance. "What??" I respond back. "Get your shit together, let's go. You're gonna put on a little demonstration today." My superior states. Begrudgingly I head over to my locker and start putting on my flight suit. Let me rewind a little. My name is Hal, I'm a pilot from Coast City. Being a pilot is in my blood, my father was also an astonishing pilot. But: I'm the best there was, the best there is and the best there ever will be. And yes I stole that line from Bret "The Hitman" Hart. But I don't care, facts are facts. I am that great at my job. Luckily no one here watched professional wrestling growing up.
By Dyllon Rodillon4 years ago in Fiction
Revenge is best served literally
Bull vs bear market, shorts, Naked shorts, dark pools, and synthetic shares. It's okay if you don't know what any of these terms mean. Hell I barely did until about a few weeks ago. I'm certainly not a economist or anything like that, I'm a welder. But I always have been interested in all the crazy interesting ways we can make money and even the odds even slightly. I knew money can bring out the worst in people but holy shit did I not realize just how evil money and the pursuit can make people. And of course I know of all the super dark stuff I'd rather not talk about. But what I am talking about is what's considered "white collar crime(s)". Again we all knew they were all liars and cheats, who stepped on a lot of toes and fingers to get to where they are. I know that, I'm not naïve. But finally understanding just how low they sunk of money is just. Wow.
By Dyllon Rodillon4 years ago in Fiction
Why we do the things we do, a fictional short story
There really is no way to the feeling describe seeing your own blood being washed off into the drain of a shower. It's still a strange feeling that you never really get used to. My name is Dean. I'm a 20 year veteran of professional wrestling, specializing in death match wrestling. For those of you unfamiliar with death match wrestling. Just take the normal wrestling you've seen on TV but add: barbed wire, light tubes, staple guns, thumb tacks, hell even fire. You name it I've done it or fallen off of/into it. 20 years of sheer pain.
By Dyllon Rodillon4 years ago in Fiction
Our first house
I still can't believe we did it, my wife and I really did it. We bought our very first home. Endless hours waiting for the bus, countless hours of overtime and double shifts, refilling ketchup bottles with packets of ketchup we took from McDonald's, and saving all the loose change we could find. We were really stretching every single penny as far as it could go until we could afford to move out of our individual apartments and move in together. Now we're both 30 years old, we met at our job as teachers. I teach economics and she's a fine arts teacher. So much student loan debt, but here we are finally moving in to our first home together.
By Dyllon Rodillon4 years ago in Fiction
Cake eaters
"Let them eat cake", growing up that quote disgusted me and shook me to my core. How could anyone be so clueless and so cruel to her fellow French men and women. For those of you unfamiliar those are the words of "Marie Antoinette". It's sad to see how little things have changed over the centuries. Day to day I see: people sleeping on park benches with one eye opened nearly freezing to death, mothers having to steal formula just to feed their babies, people selling themselves on street corners, insulin bankrupting innocent people, and veterans being tossed to the streets after serving their country. All of this all while a very select few get to live their life of extreme luxury and excess. Nightly steak and lobster dinners, brand new 100K cars speeding past our neighborhoods, paparazzi telling me I should care who's fucking who. It makes me sick and I'm done with this shit. Sorry, I forgot to mention my name is Dean. Nice to meet you. Allow me a minute to tell me about myself.
By Dyllon Rodillon4 years ago in Fiction
A winter's night in Kansas
On a cold winter's night, we are introduced to a teenage boy. He stands over 6'0, medium dark hair, fair skin, a strong chin, and very broad shoulders. He's wearing a his faded jeans, an old flannel coat, eye glasses, and a pair of brown cowboy boots. He's standing in the doorway of this old red barn his father build by hand many years ago. For years he has come out here night after night, just to ponder his place in the world. Looking to the stars for answers, but feeling pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Tens of thousands of light years of open space, countless planets both discovered and undiscovered, and quite possibly life beyond the stars outside of Earth. "Who am I?" he mutters to himself.
By Dyllon Rodillon4 years ago in Fiction
You know wrestling is fake, right?
Growing up I was very much a fan of professional wrestling. I was born near the very tail end of WWE's "Attitude era" and I vividly remember the "ruthless aggression era". Sadly I never got to see the original ECW but I did catch the rebooted WWE version of ECW. However I did unfortunately lose all my interest in wrestling at the start of the dreaded "PG era". I haven't intently watched wrestling for a very, very long time.
By Dyllon Rodillon5 years ago in Unbalanced
Vegas Golden Knights vs Montreal Canadiens
After an incredible second round, the Vegas Golden Knights advance to the final four of the Stanley Cup playoff. Waiting for them are the Montreal Canadiens. And even though everything has been wonky in this covid/first post bubble season, it has been confirmed the "conferences" will compete yet again for the "Prince of Wales and "Clarence S. Campbell" trophies accordingly. Then of course the obvious for the winner, a shot at the Stanley Cup in the Stanley Cup final. I felt that was important to mention since the league about a month ago said that they would not be competing for the conference trophies this year.
By Dyllon Rodillon5 years ago in Unbalanced
Chris Benoit
A little while ago I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine. I had brought up my belief that there's something very wrong with our society. We have this strange obsession with these monsters that live and breathe amongst us. We constantly talk about them instead of the victims, we have their names and stories burned into our memories instead of the lives of their victims. Then we inadvertently reward this behavior, by giving them endless media attention and straight-up Netflix documentaries. From "Don't f*ck with cats" to "American Murder", etc. Worst of all in my opinion we talk about them while they're still breathing. It's one thing to talk about monsters in a historic sense especially with say the worst of the worst Hitler, Mussolini, Genghis Khan, etc etc. They're long gone. But I refuse to speak their names or put the names of monsters that are still alive, in my articles in any way shape or form. I am a firm believer if we as a society refuse to learn these monsters names instead of fawning over them, we take away their power and truly show that we shun their horrendous behavior. Think, when you were in grade school and a very effective but non confrontational way to stand up to a bully was to let them know you refuse to get bullied by them and you won't give them the satisfaction of a response. We need to apply that same principal so we don't keep unintentionally breeding these monsters.
By Dyllon Rodillon5 years ago in Criminal
Vegas Golden Knights vs Colorado Avalanche
As a Vegas fan let me make one thing very clear, I am very scared of this series. I was actually at the final home game of the season for the Vegas Golden Knights when we lost, and despite only having 15 skaters that night I'm still slightly concerned. Colorado is a very good team and is absolutely on fire.
By Dyllon Rodillon5 years ago in Unbalanced
