My hands are shaking.

The guy who runs Pointless Waste of Time, David Wong, is also fairly well known on the Internet for John Dies at the End, a story which began as an annual Halloween treat for PWoT fans and eventually evolved into a full-length novel. It’s simply fantastic horror-comedy literature; the frightening elements are truly disturbing and [...]

This is a strange little thing I plucked from a course last semester. It was a course on quantum theory; we were to write a story incorporating both inspiration from an art piece from the Hirschhorn Museum and some aspect, plausible or fictionalized, of quantum mechanics or some such. It’s been given a facelift from [...]

My favorite author of all time died a few days ago. Everyone’s already beating his quotes to death trying to epitaph him; it’s really easy to make the attempt with such a brilliant master of simple and eloquent prose. Vonnegut liked to draw pictures in his stories. I’d just like to personally memorialize him with [...]

It is December 8, 1980. It is Monday.

My university campus (that’s the University of Maryland, College Park – don’t think of applying because of this, we have enough incoming freshmen already and I’d rather not be kicked out of on-campus housing because I impressed you so much) manages to be awfully beautiful sometimes. It’s a very green campus — I mean that [...]

(this was a formal exercise for this semester’s writing workshop.)

Just this one more quick thing before the blog actually gets going: I get this question a lot, so to answer it… …I don’t know. No one knows.

Here’s your Kybard.com rundown: I’m a college student. A creative writing major. I’m not, as of this post, a prolific or even a published writer. This is a blog for something which I’d like to make a living off of somewhere in the foreseeable future; this is not coming from the mind of an established [...]