Michael Darvall
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Quietly getting on with life and hopefully writing something worth reading occasionally.
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Worth of a Man
Darkness. When Carser woke, it was into the darkness of a singularity; impenetrable, unyielding. Still silence bound his ears just as the darkness cloaked his eyes. He sat up, groping in the space around him, feeling for the familiarity of the solid world. His outstretched hand brushed a smooth wall to his right. Keeping one hand on the wall he clambered to his feet, only to hit his head on the ceiling.
By Michael Darvall4 years ago in Fiction
Fairy Tales of Truth
We live in a practical world. It’s very much geared towards the key pillars of the workplace; our lifestyle, our past-times, our education, they’re all very… vocational. The modern curriculum is heavily in favour of the STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths. Other areas such as the Humanities, Arts, and Social Studies are often seen as fluffy, impractical subjects, Friday afternoon fillers in the classroom, even though they’re the keys to critical thinking. And critical thinking is the key to figuring out who we are as individuals, as people, as a society, and what sort of society we want.
By Michael Darvall5 years ago in Humans
The Dating Scene
Brian squeezed the reassuring weight of a bottle of red wine in one hand as he trod the four familiar sandstone steps to the portico. The brass door-knocker clattered under his hand, above it, at eye level, an engraved plaque read: Saint Cecilia’s Philanthropic Society for Actors, Acting, and Diverse Arts.
By Michael Darvall5 years ago in Humans
