Writing

When Paid Media is Not Professional

It is a truism that the world is run by elites. The very nature of power and wealth means that it is coveted...

Two is Too Many

As the calendar catapults us And we contemplate the new new year's resolutions that propose to make us into version 2.0 of what we are Version...

Locating Disgust

You ask me what I think? Then I'll tell you what I think. It's them in charge what's all to blame. They each one bloody stink. Have you...

10 Bond Secrets We Will Never Know

Thanks to Skyfall, the new Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, we know more about James Bonds' back story than ever before. We...

Escaping Sha’tar

"You overstay." In one sense, she was right. I had overstayed. Anyone taking the lengthy bus ride from their plane to the arrivals...

The Two Who Strove

(a poem about the US Presidential election, with a humble nod to e e cummings) anyone lived in a pretty big country (where the people were...

Parallel Return of the Jedi: Swamp Gas

A few decades ago, a man sat in his office and realized that film-making was a hard way to make money. If he...

MaV-Eric Reveals the Source of All Stuff

2012 has been an annus horribilis around chez nous. Unable to secure a grant for any of my research projects, and harangued by...

What Did Obama Say About Benghazi?

If you like politics, then the second debate between President Barack Obama and his challenger, Mitt Romney, was a real humdinger. Both men...

4am Besides

And when the night passes over, Windows shuttered, curtains drawn, And we're all in the great shadow of the world, There's still a glimmer of light In the...

Ten in the Morning

It's ten in the morning The cat is pregnant The pubs are shut The car won't start My husband's a slut It's ten in the evening My TV ain't working My...

The Firmest Embrace

I fought the firmest embrace And lost. No brethren left to share my burden, The yoke's mark rests on my back alone. Released from an overlong cell, So afraid...

About Halfthoughts

This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.