Category: Literature
Original short stories, poetry, and book reviews.
It is 1am. I think I am losing my mind. I’ve lost count of the number of times I have walked by the front window to see if your car was in my driveway. My constant checking of your social media pages has become…
Category: Literature, Original WritingTags: boyfriend, break up, dream, dreams, girlfriend, heartache, heartbreak, husband, loss, love, lovers, relationship, relationships, romance, short story, sleep, spouse, wife
Posted on June 5, 2017
by Aristidis Marousas
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I didn’t think it was her at first. The bar was busy, but it was at that time when people started to leave to either head home or find some late night food. She was standing with two other female friends, finishing off their…
Category: Literature, Original Writing, SpotlightTags: boyfriend, break up, closure, creative writing, emotions, engagement, girlfriend, heart, heart break, heartache, heartbreak, life, love, lovers, marriage, relationship, relationships, romance, short story, story
There was a time, not long ago Where I knew not, this sorrow. Before you took me to bed and began to mess with my head.
Posted on February 4, 2017
by Aristidis Marousas
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I have an appointment this evening with Evelyn White. I would hesitate to call it a date, as there is some business we need to attend to. Evelyn currently resides at 210 Montgomery Avenue, which is only two blocks off of Main Street. Cold Springs…
Category: Literature, Original Writing, SpotlightTags: america, appointment, children, death, elederly, fiction, life, Literature, short story, small town
The old stories always told of the mountain. The mountain where the god lived. In some of the stories, he was kind. In others, he was vengeful. Which of the stories was true, the man wondered. He had asked this question aloud once, at…
Category: Literature, Original Writing, SpotlightTags: author, fiction, fiction story, god, gods, knowledge, legend, legends, man, mountain, myth, myths, nature, power, religion, scenery, short story, story, storytelling, tale, tales, truth, writing
Last year I began my own tradition of reading a horror/thriller book around Halloween. Consider it my way of mentally getting into the season. The first book I read was a classic; The Shining by Stephen King. It was an exciting read and I…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: aspergers, book, book review, evil, ghosts, halloween, haunted, haunting, horror, imagination, jack peter keenean, jip, keith donohue, monsters, novel, psychological thriller, scary, spirits, spooky, the boy who drew monsters, thriller
Posted on September 22, 2014
by Aristidis Marousas
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A few weeks ago, we published an article that listed five books on our wishlist. Last week, we reviewed a book on the list, Lexicon. This week The Motley Experience reviews another book on the list, one that we were very excited to read. The Name…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: a wise man's fear, book, book review, books, chandrian, fantasy, fiction, game of thrones, george rr martin, got, hero, kote, kvothe, legend, myth, novel, patrick rothfuss, saga, series, song of ice and fire, the kingkiller chronicle, the name of the wind
Posted on September 15, 2014
by Aristidis Marousas
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In a previous article, we listed five books on The Motley Experience’s “wish list”. One of these books was the highly acclaimed novel by Max Barry, Lexicon. This is a science fiction novel that reads as a thriller. The premise of the story is…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: bareword, book review, books, eliot, emily ruff, fiction, harry wilson, highly acclaimed, lexicon, linguistics, max barry, must read, novel, persuasion, poets, science fiction, suspense, thriller, woolf
Posted on September 1, 2014
by Aristidis Marousas
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Normally, on a Monday, The Motley Experience provides readers with a book review. The books reviewed are always read by The ME staff before being written about. This week we will take a different approach and list some novels, old and new, that are…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: abercrombie, authors, book review, books, bookshelf, cantrell, fantasy, fiction, follett, george r r martin, historical fiction, library, max barry, novels, read, reading list, rothfuss, wish list
“The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are…
Category: Book Reviews, LiteratureTags: book review, business, chris martenson, crash course, current events, debt, earth, economic growth, economy, environment, financial crisis, oil, overpopulation, policy, politics, resources, scarce resources, unsustainable, usa
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