Isaac Hall
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Hedon's Heretic
It wasn't laziness that landed Oscar on the streets. He had worked hard for decades without complaint and been rewarded with a prestigious position at a university teaching philosophy. Yet as rapidly as his tenure approached, his mental health declined, at least in the eyes of his contemporaries. He became increasingly brazen about his disgust for modern culture, embracing man's nature as merely another animal, a belief which eventually culminated in a series of embarrassing diogenic countercultural displays which left the university with no choice but to abandon him.
By Isaac Hall4 years ago in Fiction
To Douse The Sun
If nothing else, she was resilient. Joy from desperate hope fulfilled welled up as tears in two sapphire orbs, once commonplace, now endangered, which peaked out beneath an unkempt crown of ebony locks. Sun bleached and windswept clothes clung to her, a macabre attire replete with various bits and baubles collected in nostalgic fits on her travels, pinned and pushed into every open space, signs of lost wealth and civilization which combined to mark their wearer with a message: "I am the queen of the dead".
By Isaac Hall5 years ago in Fiction
