Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
Troubled Sleep
I rise suddenly from sleep, my mind whirling a thousand klicks a second. The vestiges of my dreams cling to me like a vapor -- but only for a moment. A moment and it is gone, a breath puffed away in less than a heartbeat. The only thing I'm left with is the sense of...
2018 Retrospective: Family & Finances
From the moment I was hospitalized in 2016 with severe depression and suicidal ideation, when my marriage, my employment, and essentially the entirety of my life crumbled in a burning pile of ash, until my arrest this past May, I had lived with family. I spent the...
2018 Retrospective: Dragonspire Media
One of the biggest changes that 2018 brought into my life was my professional development. In April I became an entrepreneur, launching my own business. This is something I've wanted to do for years, and it was both exciting and terrifying at the same time. It's also...
Fiction
Glitch
It was a technical glitch. The universe wasn't supposed to temporarily wink out of existence like that. We apologize for the oversight. The error was completely ours. The hotfix we pushed out that led to the glitch was intended to bypass the Wormhole Highway...
Pieces of an Angel
The city streets shimmered in the sun. An old man, draped in a dark cloak, marched along one of those streets. His head was hooded, obscuring most of his face. But that was alright. Most who visited the Market of the Macabre chose to veil themselves in one way or...
The Globe
The globe he found himself standing on was small. Very small. Like, he could walk all the way around it in just 20-30 minutes. So, a couple of miles in circumference? He wasn’t 100% sure how he got to this globe, though he knew with keen certainty that it was...