Jim Stitzel
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of WordsExcerpts from Life
My Atheism Has Been One Half of a Binary System
I’ve been an atheist for some time now. I can’t provide an exact span of time because there was no singular date, no specific point, at which I suddenly said, “Oh, I’m an atheist!” That’s not really how it works when you’re deconverting from religion. It’s more...
Of Gods versus Deities
I blame it on my evangelical roots, but as I contemplate my own spirituality and its glacial slide toward paganism, there’s a significant portion of my mind that wants to create a distinction between a god versus a deity. I mean, I get it: deity is just another word...
Anxiety As a Factor of Gaming
I haven't done any kind of gaming or streaming to Twitch over the last 10 days. It's the longest hiatus I've taken since I started gaming again at the beginning of January. Up until recently, I played something -- usually either Destiny 2 or ARC Raiders -- almost...
Fiction
Wind Chimes
They dangle from the eaves and make beautiful music in the wind. Long, slender bits of metal jangling against each other. They are tied to the bottom of a dreamcatcher, twirling and dancing and spinning. And the music they produce -- such a thing has never been heard....
The Way Out
The tunnel was the only way out. And it was guarded by enormous... squirrels? These mutated little fuckers were the size of small dogs with long, sharp teeth and razor claws. Where they came from we don't know, but suddenly the trees were full of them, and they chased...
The Splice
We've been together ever since the nuclear reactor blew. From a global standpoint, this was a minor explosion. It only wiped out the building it was in and about ten square miles of landscape. Almost everything within the blast radius was obliterated. Almost...