Stephanie Hoogstad
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With a BA in English and MSc in Creative Writing, writing is my life. I have edited and ghost written for years with some published stories and poems of my own.
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The Whistleblower
Elon felt stupid wearing a white muscle shirt, jean shorts, and a baseball cap, especially in November, but the person behind the text message had told him not to dress like himself to avoid getting recognized. Like anyone in Middle-of-Nowhere, Northern California would recognize him anyway.
By Stephanie Hoogstadabout a month ago in Fiction
Thankful
It’s Thanksgiving, Turkey Day, and we are all made to think about what we are thankful for. This year, unfortunately, I am having a hard time thinking of much to be thankful for. Two major events have overshadowed the good in my life: the drowning of my grandmother in June and the death of my mother in July. Now, I was not very close to my grandmother, but the traumatic nature of her death really struck me, and the fact that it has affected my father so much has made it even worse. And, of course, anyone who has read any of my writings on here know by now that I was very close to my mother and that her death has affected me deeply.
By Stephanie Hoogstadabout a month ago in Humans
A Dystopia of Our Own Design. Top Story - November 2025.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. –George Orwell, 1984 More and more often, I look around and find that the themes of my favorite dystopian novels have come to life: separatism/division, erasure, controlling the past to control the future, the rich stamping on the poor while the poor take it out on each other, using technology to control and monitor our lives, etc. It is everything that we have been warned against, especially in literature—time and time again.
By Stephanie Hoogstad2 months ago in Futurism
Revisiting My Old Writings
As you might have noticed if you read my most recent post, “The Museum of Freedom”, I have been looking through some of my old writings today as I have been trying to find inspiration for new writing. (So far, it has not worked, but I have been having fun—and a little bit of cringing—reading what I used to write.) And, of course, I wanted to share some of those writings with you, my readers, because—well, why not? I would love to see some of the earlier works by my favorite writers, just to see how their voices developed over the years and how their views might have evolved. Why not give my readers the same chance?
By Stephanie Hoogstad2 months ago in Writers
