The cold forms a heavy concrete box around me and the hazardous waste that’s piled up inside. My chest vibrates and glows green and purple and emits a high-pitched hum that lands against the cold, hard walls and falls silent. The vibrations never make it to my fingers, which consequently cannot feel anything. That’s… Continue reading Reinforcement
Little Thoughts
Thermodynamics
The room is oppressively warm. A floor lamp in the corner casts a warm, yellow, light across the warm, gray carpet and the warm brown of the coarsely woven sofa cushions. It is not the warmth of a fireside or the summer sun; it is warm like bathwater with dirt and hairs floating in it. … Continue reading Thermodynamics
Circular Motion and Reference Frames
Rachel and I sit at a folding table in the living room, in a space we’ve carved out among the flood of boxes spouting up from the basement. I shuffle my attention between five different online databases and a book that sags off the edge of the table, typing a few meticulous words at a… Continue reading Circular Motion and Reference Frames
Displacement
Aunt Tweet lived in her house until it squeezed her out. Mangled piles of fraying wires, moth-eaten fabric, disintegrating plastic crushed against the windows and crumbling on top of each other. The power shut off, the pipes frozen and bursting, the roof leaking, a tidal wave of cold, gray water washing her out the front… Continue reading Displacement
External Forces
“I respect your decision, but-” It is just after six in the morning, the sky is as black as the airport parking lot, and I am sitting in the passenger seat of my dad’s idling pickup truck with my coach on the phone. He is about to completely disregard my decision and the reasoning behind… Continue reading External Forces
Inertia: Part I
“Sometimes it hurts to know you can do it. It’s an intimidating thing to realize because it means that the only person who can really define your growth and happiness is yourself. There is no shortcut to becoming your best self. The responsibility is on you.” -Alexi Pappas “[I]nertia, property of a body by virtue… Continue reading Inertia: Part I
Potential Energy
I sit across the table from you, diagonally, so I can’t look you straight in the eye. My book is open to the same page I was on thirty minutes ago, and I’ve forgotten what it’s about. My face is hot, but I curl my fingers inside of my thick sweatshirt. I repeat the same… Continue reading Potential Energy