The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: story

  • The Other Side of the Story

    I just had this psychedelic thought, and I’m not even smoking pot. Here it is: Stories are three-dimensional. They have sides. They have perspectives. They have angles. The conclusions you draw from them will be based on which direction you approach them from. You can’t see all sides at once. I suppose I always thought…

  • An Iowa Story

    On my way across country I passed through Iowa, and at one point I had to pull off the highway to get gas. This gas station was the only visible building. In all directions all you could see was a flat expanse of cropland, and mine was the only car in sight as well. As…

  • What’s Your Story?

    Every single person on this planet, no matter how dull, has most likely experienced something phenomenal at least once in their lives. Maybe they’ve been present for something historic, or met someone famous, or seen something that’s unexplainable or life-changing. Perhaps they themselves have set things in motion that have caused something amazing to occur.…

  • I Was Here

    Approximately 40,800 years ago, someone, possibly a Neandertal, painted the oldest known cave art in a place called the Cave of El Castillo in northern Spain. This is the first evidence we have of someone saying,  “Death shall not silence me.” And we’ve been saying it ever since. Wanting to survive beyond your expiration date…