Three souls cross paths in a tavern. First the half-orc, strong and quiet, driven by power. Then the dragonborn, whose travels entertain an ever-growing curiosity. Lastly, the Aasimar, a celestial being seeking to stop destiny. An older man, a storyteller of sorts, informs them that what they are looking for is an abandoned house near … More ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Makes Storytellers Out of Everyone
We are very excited to share our 44th issue with all of you! Like our previous issue, this one is published exclusively online at least for the foreseeable future due to restrictions related to COVID-19. Many thanks to our amazingly talented contributors for sending us their creations! We hope that as we venture into an … More Writer’s Block #44
Finally, we have the winner of this year’s flash fiction competition; congratulations to Catherine Edmunds! We’ve had a great time reading all of the submissions, and this one resonated with us the most. We hope you love it as much as we do. Check out what she came up with below! Don’t Eat the Rhubarbby … More Flash Fiction Competition 2020 — First Place
We are excited to announce the second place winner of our competition! Check out what Reinier van der Plas has come up with for the prompt “What are we going to do with the flesh-eating plant in our garden?” The Mansionby Reinier van der Plas An old house stood atop the hill at the very … More Flash Fiction Competition 2020 — Second Place
Writer’s Block is proud to announce the third place winner of our annual flash fiction competition: Casper Rudolph! The prompt was: “What are we going to do about the flesh-eating plant in our garden?” Check out what Casper came up with below! Arjuno and Pohon Iblisby Casper Rudolph In a second-hand bookshop in Jakarta, Eefje … More Flash Fiction Competition 2020 — Third Place
“And on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.” -Timothy “Speed” Levitch, Waking Life Waking Life (2001), a relatively hidden cinematic gem, is a movie directed by Richard Linklater. The main character is a young man who passes through life in a dream state, feeling detached from his dreams and … More How ‘Waking Life’ Helped Me Accept My Chaos
Choosing a Jury: Time for a Peer Review This article is going to present a thought experiment I’ve imagined and spent time thinking about based on the concept of free will in order to explore how machinery could put this concept into question. Black Mirror is an instance of such contemporary reflections, where previous ideas … More Free Will and Machinery: The US Justice System Has Nothing to Do with It
June is one of my favourite sunny months, but apparently also Scoliosis Awareness Month! It felt pretty good discovering that this exists since I live with scoliosis as well. I would like to tell a bit about my own experience with scoliosis; how it’s a struggle to live with, but also about overcoming insecurities and … More Scoliosis Awareness Month
Not to sound like a boomer, but nowadays, our entire lives are spent behind screens. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing! Technology has allowed us to achieve some pretty amazing feats, but it is no lie that most of us probably spend too much time on our phones and on our laptops. Everything … More From Vinyl to Spotify: A Look at Physical Possessions
I recently stumbled onto a short YouTube clip of the philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, in which he said that although we humans emerged from nature and are a part of the biological phenomenon of the natural world, this fact does not mean that how we conceive of nature is necessarily accurate or objective. The way we … More Ambiguous Hush: An Ecocritical Reading of John Clare’s ‘The Nightingale’s Nest’
