Category: Life and Shadow

  • Conversation With a Chinese Software Engineer

    “Hello!”

    Hey sexy.

    “I’m the Chinese software engineer who hacked into your device OS.

    I’ve been watching you for months now.”

    Fuck that’s hot. Do I turn you on that much, big boy?

    “You’ve been infected with malware through the adult website you visited.”

    Which one?

    “I have downloaded all confidential information from your system and I got some more evidence.”

    Aren’t you the sneaky sleuth? Hot.

    “I gained access to your smartphone and saw everything you were doing… well, I got a video of you masturbating in the bathroom (nice interior, by the way).”

    Thanks! Like my cock? The walls are streaked with my cum.

    “I’ve been monitoring your camera for the past 2 weeks – it was active for 47 hours total, and you never noticed because I disabled the LED indicator.”

    You’re so smart and naughty, Chinese engineer. No wonder US dominance is slipping.

    “I put together footage: on one side of the screen is the video you’re watching at the moment and on the other side is your satisfied face. With one click, I can send this video to all your contacts.”

    Oh fuck yes. I want them all to see me like this.

    “I’ve already prepared everything. I have access to your WhatsApp and I can see all your conversations – with your family, your relatives, your friends, your colleagues, and even your boss. I’ve also taken screenshots of your private chats. The video is queued and ready to send. One wrong move and I press the button.”

    Mmmm fuuuck. Do it, bro!

    “I can see your WhatsApp messages, your private chats, your family group chats, and I can send anything I want from your account. I also have your work email and I can see all your professional contacts. Imagine your relatives receiving this video from your WhatsApp number in your family group chat, or your boss and colleagues receiving it during work hours. How would you explain that? Your life will be ruined.”

    Omg, please ruin me. Make me your slave, daddy.

    “All your data is already uploaded to my secure servers. Even if you delete everything from your device right now, I still have copies. The email templates are ready. The video is processed and optimized. Everything is set up. I’m just waiting for the timer to expire.”

    Tick tick, baby. Now show me your yellow dick.

    “I’m monitoring this email right now. If you forward it, show it to someone, or try to contact the police, I’ll know instantly and the video will be sent immediately to your entire contact list, starting with your relatives and your work contacts. There’s no way to stop me once I press that button.”

    Oooh, so sexy and commanding. Make me beg for mercy on my knees.

    “Do you want to prevent this?”

    No, punish me, Daddy.

    “I understand your concern. Especially since the video was quite vulgar, I can’t imagine the embarrassment you will feel when your family, relatives, colleagues, friends and everyone else see it. Your reputation will be destroyed forever.”

    Have you seen my site? I destroyed my own reputation a long time ago.

    “You’ll never be able to look them in the eye again.”

    I don’t look them in the eye now. Pretty sure I’m on the spectrum.

    “If you need to delete all of your collected data, just send 0.01 btc (Bitcoin) to a wallet that was specially generated for your email address.

    bc1q5g3fhptpp9g8r0spfzr7jdwgp0wn6tqc3gsgpf”

    That looks legit.

    “Yes, it’s that simple! My script will detect the transaction to this wallet and will automatically delete all the dirt that was collected on you from my servers.”

    Nah, too much work. I’m a lazy American. Now let me suck ur cock.

    “You have 48 hours to pay. The countdown started the moment you opened this email. If you don’t pay within 48 hours, the video will be automatically sent – right when everyone is at work, checking their messages. Every hour you delay, I’ll send the video to random contacts from your list, starting with your relatives and work colleagues. After 48 hours, everyone gets it – your entire WhatsApp contact list, including all your relatives, and I’ll also post it on your social media accounts from your own profile. There will be no way to undo this.”

    Blah blah blah. Show me your bits, big boy.

    “Timer ID: -904422093

    The timer started automatically after you opened this email. You’re being watched right now. Every second counts.

    If you don’t have enough money, you can pay half the amount (0.005 btc) to your wallet in order to extend the timer for another 48 hours.”

    Zzzz….stop with this dry ass hell technical talk.

    “Do not try to reply to this email, it makes absolutely no sense (the sender’s email address as well as the Bitcoin wallet were generated automatically especially for you and cannot be traced). I don’t make mistakes. Don’t test me.”

    There’s that dominating talk I like. Control me, daddy. Make me your slave.

    “If I see that you’ve shared this message with someone else (for example, if it is opened on a different device than yours), the video will instantly start being sent out to your contact list. I have monitoring scripts running 24/7. Your relatives will be the first to receive it in your family group chats. This is your only warning.”

    Mmm….that’s right. I’m a naughty boy. Bend me over and swat me with your chopstick.

    “Take it easy. Take it as a little life lesson and be more careful in the future.”

    I don’t want to be more careful….I just wanna choke on your Chinese wang.

    “Yes, the internet advice about taping the camera isn’t so useless.

    Good luck with that. Bye. ❤️”

    So long, handsome.🍆

  • Urban Life: Paley Park, New York

    Paley Park, New York City
    Paley Park, New York City

    I first learned about Paley Park in William H. Whyte‘s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, an inspiring and formative little book that I stumbled upon years ago and still occasionally thumb through and read.

    Paley Park was at the top of my list when I first visited New York, and I’ve returned many times since.

    Paley Park, New York City
    Paley Park, New York City

    Just 4,200 square feet in size,1 it’s a perfect little slice of nature in Midtown Manhattan, with a waterfall, trees, and plenty of tables and chairs.

    The park is packed every time I visit, whether on a beautiful spring afternoon or a freezing January day.

    Looking up through the canopy at Paley Park
    Looking up through the canopy at Paley Park

    References

    1. Paley Park – Wikipedia ↩︎
  • Resume

    I woke up this morning to the rat-a-tat-tat of an old typewriter,
    Ready to punch out the form of my day.
    “Just a minute,” I objected hazily—sometimes I like to go off-script.
    I drifted back into some preferable, strange dream,
    Then, resurrected with a cup of coffee an hour later.
    “Okay, writer: resume.”

  • Urban Life: Northern Mockingbird

    Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
    Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

  • All Hail the King

    As the old man sinks onto the toilet, his prolapsed anus pulsing, he thinks to himself: “My God, it feels good to be superior.”

    With thick, labored breaths, he spreads his pale, sweaty thighs, unable to see his shriveled cock and sagging balls for his bulging stomach.

    Grunting and groaning with every flatulent squirt, he tries in vain to push out a turd that’s been compacting in his colon for days, inhaling deeply as he farts because he likes his own smell.

    The tile on his bathroom wall is streaked with shit because he never washes his hands. In a nearby bucket are the cuttings of his pubes, which he trims to make his penis look bigger. It doesn’t fool anyone, though, even when he’s wearing a cock ring.

    He pushes and heaves for what feels like an eternity, but the only evacuation from his body is a flaccid little stream of piss.

    Finally giving up on his labor, he strains to wipe the fresh juice from the folds of his orifice, clumsily smearing it into the coarse hairs of his crack, all matted together with dried fecal crumbs.

    Now red, irritated, and burning, the asshole begins to rage.

    It infuriates him that the world doesn’t recognize how special he is—that he is divinely appointed for a special purpose.

    He believes he’s smarter, stronger, and more talented than anyone else, and he alone is exempt from the laws of the universe. He is elevated, set aside, unique from all the other pissing, shitting creatures around him.

    It’s never been enough for him to keep his exceptional superiority to himself, however—he needs everyone else to recognize it, too. As a god among mortals, he was made to be admired, worshiped, and adored.

    He’s always had an endless supply of sycophants at his disposal: idolatrous, insecure asswipes he can seduce and trap with his magnetic charm. It was easier when he was young and good-looking, but age has given him the ugly mug and impotent cock he deserves.

    His ass-lickers fawn over him, lavish him with praise, and hang on his every word. He feeds off their adulation for sweet life, but when he inevitably grows bored or is struck by fresh fear, he lashes out in self-righteous rage about disloyalty or some other invented slight, then quickly discards them.

    Most of his enablers don’t go away completely—at least not at first. Some he never hears from again, but the weaker ones can usually be wooed back with flattery and empty promises when he needs a fresh supply. They return to him on their knees, groveling, begging forgiveness from their abuser, and the cycle repeats, each time shorter and more miserable than the last.

    Yet even the most loyal lackeys grow weary of sucking him off to keep him happy. His words are worth less than his shit; he has an unquenchable thirst for attention, and his infantile need for domination is exhausting, suffocating, and above all, boring. Everyone drawn into his orbit eventually comes to resent and despise him.

    He is consumed with paranoia and suspicion, and for good reason—those who profess the greatest loyalty to him are the ones who, for their own protection, become the smoothest of liars.

    To have any long-standing relationship with him is to fabricate a persona that exists solely to pacify him: one that is obsequious and compliant. You must become detached, steely, guarded—and a consummate actor. Smile and tell him what he wants to hear, then conspire in whispers behind his back.

    He is a man without love: no matter how good it begins, every relationship degrades into a cold and transactional exchange of power. Those who stick with him the longest are the ones who believe the deepest that they will benefit from his supremacy, too blinded to recognize that it’s a hallucination, a chimera, a mirage. They only know it when he has utterly stripped their souls, leaving them worthless, depleted, and without any of their original identity.

    His string of failed relationships and consistent self-sabotage betray him as an abject failure of a human being. He desperately wants to be seen as intelligent, but anyone who’s been around him for any amount of time knows that he’s a bumbling imbecile: dumb as a post, dull as his dick, and a fool to the core.

    He is, in fact, a pathetic husk of a man—a cipher, a void, a reptilian viper, a succubus from the darkest pit of hell. Look into his eyes: you’ll find there’s nothing in them.

    He is an empty sack of darkness, a black hole of deception, manipulation, cruelty, and depravity. Lacking discipline and self-control, he seeks to wreak vengeance and humiliation on those he deems inferior to himself—and that happens to be everyone. Yet in constant threats and tirades, he reveals himself to be the very thing he fears to be recognized as: pathetic, fragile, and weak.

    Beneath his gaseous cloud of illusion, baby boy knows deep in his bowels that there is nothing special about him at all. He is only one of many such monsters who roam the earth: Celebrities, politicians, pastors, executives, pissant middle managers, hucksters, grifters, and sheisty salesmen. There are a billion others just like him, all preying on those willing to surrender their souls for the illusion of second-hand power.

    This class of dime-store demons should be mocked, derided, and ignored. Instead, they are honored, celebrated, and revered as aspirational figures by a world of suckling infants desperate for god-like caricatures to coddle and protect them while they distract themselves with trinkets and toys.

    The old man has his role to play on earth, like everyone—the soul, after all, doesn’t grow without adversity. But as just one of a legion of adversaries, he is not unique: in time, he, too, will flame out and be forgotten. He is a passing shadow, a fleeting mist, a momentary fart.

    And as he shifts on his throne to rip another one, he suddenly slumps forward and belches his last sulfurous breath.

    All hail the king.

  • Shower Secrets

    We’d been playing together for a while. It was an intense and heavy game.

    After we both finished, we walked to the locker room together. He took off his shirt and gave it to me.

    As he headed for the shower, he slid off his pants—first the right leg, then the left, bending down slightly before me. He handed those to me, too.

    He disappeared behind the door and a second later poked out his arm, underwear dangling from his fingers.

    “You can have this too,” he said casually.

    It was pungent and soaked with sweat.

    He left the door cracked just enough for me to make out his form in the steam.

    He knew what he was doing.

  • Urban Life: Red-shouldered Hawk

    Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus)
    Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus)

    I found this fine-feathered fiend on a recent photo excursion, giving me the sinister side-eye without moving a muscle.

    Good thing hawks aren’t any bigger—I’d have been its Thanksgiving dinner otherwise.

  • Piedmont Natives: Georgia aster

    Bumblebee pollinating Georgia aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum)
    Bumblebee pollinating Georgia aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum)
    Georgia aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum)
    Georgia aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum)
    Clouded skipper (Lerema accius) pollinating a Georgia aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum)
    Clouded skipper (Lerema accius) pollinating a Georgia aster (Symphyotrichum georgianum)
  • All for Daddy

    He always despised the nanny state. What he wanted was a daddy state.

    He wanted a big, strong father figure to tell him what to do. And like any good boy, he would dutifully obey.

    He wanted Daddy to beat up the people he didn’t like; to mete vengeance on his enemies.

    “Don’t you talk bad about my daddy,” he screamed at them. “He’s gonna beat you up.”

    Sometimes, late at night, he imagined his daddy punishing him, too.

    “Spank me harder, Daddy,” he heard himself sobbing, his bare cheeks quivering in the air. The pain was just part of Daddy’s love for him.

    He liked Daddy to control him so he didn’t have to make his own decisions. Life is hard, and he didn’t want to think for himself. He certainly didn’t want to accept responsibility for anything.

    Whatever he didn’t like, Daddy would fix for him. And if anything went wrong, he could pitch a fit and blame Daddy for it before running back into his arms in tears.

    He despised Mommy and wanted Daddy to beat her down. He knew Daddy hated that bitch as much as he did—Daddy said the only thing vaginas are good for is fucking and birthing.

    He wanted to join in while Daddy skullfucked Mommy. In his fantasies, he’d scream, “Shut up and let me cum on your tits,” while Daddy slowly choked her to death. That would show her who’s boss.

    Now, Daddy’s fading into oblivion, and the truth of a life spent in darkness is coming to light. Turns out Daddy’s a demon: an empty, narcissistic husk who doesn’t give a single fuck about the boy—and never did.

    Baby boy denies it, of course. He’s doubled down on his defense of Daddy because he’s too fragile to accept what everyone else already knows: that Daddy is a monster far worse than any of his childhood nightmares.

    If no one else will tell him the truth, then I will—

    Daddy isn’t coming back, baby boy. And you were always on your own, anyway.

    Guess it’s time to grow the fuck up.

  • Cold, Cold Mountain

    Dawn at Cold Mountain, North Carolina
    Dawn at Cold Mountain, North Carolina

    The bitch threw momma off the mountain.

    She said it was an accident at the time.

    Momma was an angry old monster—

    ‘Twas more “reap what you sow” than a crime.

    As momma went tumbling down the hillside,

    The bitch rubbed her hands with glee.

    Now momma haunts the bitch like a devil,

    And she don’t give a damn about me.