Daily writing promptWhat are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?View all responses I never quite understood the obsession with life extension and LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity). What are you planning on doing with your life if it extends into another decade or five? Anyone thinking they'd do something different is... Continue Reading →
Video Games and their Cognitive Orbit: A Tale of Dishonesty and Hostility
Video Games and their Cognitive Orbit: A Tale of Dishonesty and Hostility An essay by C. M. Oguz *** Although I think it’s redundant to explain why games are better pastime hobbies than, for instance, scrolling social media or binge-watching a tv-show, I will indulge the nay-sayers with a brief foray into why this is... Continue Reading →
Daughter of Anatolia
Daughter of Anatolia A Short Story by C. M. Oguz *** It's a cold winter's evening in Istanbul. A dockworker waiting for the nightshift rests his forearms against the rusty black railings of the Eminönü waterfront, gazing idly across the inlet. Karaköy looms up ahead, streaks of color illuminating its glass vertices. Large edifices of... Continue Reading →
Children of Darkness
CHILDREN OF DARKNESS A Short Story by C. M. Oguz *** When walking about school Jack would always be scanning reflective surfaces, such as glass-panes or metal lockers, to see whether he was being pursued. His mind ached; it was an exhausting existence. He knew that he ought to stand up to his bullies,... Continue Reading →
2024 (Part 1) / Cabinet of Thoughts
Thus the year begins anew. Let us together witness what hideosities lurk across the warp of time. I plan to periodically update this intolerable babble, as I did the previous years. January 4, 2024: Yesterday I left for the Winkelcentrum up the street since I lacked lemons for my chicken broth soup, which is one... Continue Reading →
2023 / Cabinet of Thoughts
April, 25, 2023: The majority of my dissertation has been physically written in a variety of roasteries and cafés – Timbertrain, Pallet and 49th Parallel in particular. For some reason, I work much better surrounded by people in public environments, where stuff is happening around me like a sort of white-noise that infiltrates not only... Continue Reading →
On the trail of the Byzantine Necronomicon
Dear Dr. Alexander Ryder,I write to you in utmost urgency as I have stumbled upon an important lead in the manuscript history of the forbidden text. Before embarking on the perilous journey this has lured me into, I would like to inform you of my discoveries. Discoveries, which I now wish had been left in... Continue Reading →
Cordelia and the Oak Tree
Cordelia and the Oak Tree A Short Story by C. M. Oguz *** Cordelia, known to her friends and family as Cora, was by all means an ordinary girl, indistinguishable on the surface from all the others who attended Primrose Elementary. Much like them, she also liked to braid her hair, listen to the latest... Continue Reading →
The Elemental
The Elemental A Short Story by C. M. Oguz *** It was a rainy Monday afternoon as Nathan sat with his backside parked squarely on his hard, cold desk-chair preparing to listen to the ever-lasting boredom that would no doubt be that day’s literature lecture. But something happened that day which interfered with the usual... Continue Reading →
Mete’s Puzzle/Adventure Game Guide
This is a guide for puzzle/adventure games available on PC. The common feature of the games included are being focused mainly on puzzle-solving rather than other gaming mechanics (i.e. gunplay). Most such games are Point & Click in style, modelled after the Lucas Arts classics of the early 90's - but there are a few... Continue Reading →
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