I’ve been wanting to branch out from writing fiction and experiment with writing more non-fiction or reflective pieces on culture, Lit, etc. I this piece, I explore Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and the sacrament of Reconciliation in the Catholic Church via a somewhat personal reflection. Happy reading!

“Through error you come to the truth!” It is this simplistic yet sound insight from the supporting character of Razumikhin in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment that serves as the modus operandi for the author’s many works. The recurrent themes of man’s capacity for evil, the possibility for redemption and the illumination of truth is perhaps at their most potent in the aforementioned story above, a tale that is grotesque as it is beautiful.

From the first chapter, we are presented with a mirror in the person of Rodian Romanovich Raskolnikov (whose very surname may or may not be a play on the…

Was thinking about the paradoxical nature of freedom, particularly speech, throughout the world (especially in regards to America) and was bombarded by whatever this is. Feel free to rip it apart, like it, be indifferent, etc. (but if you disagree with me we can’t be friends anymore😤[I jest of course😜😂])

I found another elderly short piece of mine while I was going through some folders on my writing shelf. Pretty sure I wrote this partially about my older twin sister, who is a former ballerina. Enjoy!

I’m a storyteller, an actress but I never write a word

My movements do the talking, telling stories that often go unheard Shakespeare with pointe shoes

Tolkien without a pen

I compose sonnets with my feet, my arms, my legs

Turning silence into a myriad of odes and villanelles

I went a little over and couldn’t find a way to cut the words down but here’s my overdue assignment (threw in the 4th Person to make up for my procrastination).

“Off with her head!” We shout in perfect unison before the guillotine of public opinion proceeds to decapitate another victim of our insatiable ire. Our latest victim was akin to Marie Antoinette, a well fed oligarch who thought the best way to silence our current fears and anxieties was to show us her freezer full of assorted ice cream on Instagram LIVE. “Let them eat Haagen-Daz.” She proclaimed with her “I don’t give a shit” grin. While some may find our reaction petty, extreme even, one must remember “The views of the many outweigh the views of the few”…or something to that effect. We love each other until one of us goes against the sacred code, the offense…