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Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love

Winner of the 2019 Quill Prose Award from red Hen Press

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Last November, I found a dead body inside the freezer that my roommate keeps inside the garage. My first thought was … Read more

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Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle

Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle

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Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love Book Launch Party at Diesel, a Bookstore. Saturday, June 25 at 3 PM. With Lily Hoang, author of Underneath.
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love Humor Storytelling

CSML Book Launch Party!

COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE, winner of the 2019 Quill Prose Award by Red Hen Press, will be available in bookstores as a hardcover and eBook on June 21, 2022.

Since that day is a weekday, we’re celebrating first with … Read more

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The road to happiness is paved with sorrow: Why we need conflict in stories, explained by neuroscience

Veronica Roth argues that “if there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading.” Not only do I agree with her claim, but I would extend this argument to any experience. Games, hobbies, and even chores performed … Read more

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Heartbreaking. Gut-wrenching. Devastating. Why do we like sad stories?

This is a digested version of my —very long— doctoral dissertation.

The “sadness paradox,” deriving pleasure from the consumption of sad stories, has intrigued philosophers and psychologists for a very long time. Why do we enjoy consuming sad stories when … Read more

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Can immersive media be more engaging than traditional media?

This post summarizes a study I did at Vertebrae, Inc. last year: Interactivity and Realism as Determinants for Engagement: A Comparison Between Immersive and Traditional Media Effects.

Most successful advertising relies on a storytelling format and persuading via modeling, consumers … Read more

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So you want to upload your “consciousness” to the cloud?

The year is 2045, and you just watched a marathon of Black Mirror. Feeling that the end is near but that you still have much to accomplish, you decide to upload your consciousness to the cloud, so that a virtual … Read more

Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love

Chapter 5. In which the mother finishes her confession

The priest seemed to have aged a decade.

“Two years?”

“She deserved twenty. She remained in that cage until she grew too big to fit in it and she merely broke the crate from the inside.”

“But—” The priest stole … Read more

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A Physiological Model of Boredom and its Relationship with Depression: A research Proposal

Abstract

Based on empirical evidence that suggests that failing to recognize a stimulus as emotionally relevant results in hypoactivity of the orexinergic cells in the hypothalamus, this article proposes a physiological model of boredom that makes depression a consequence of … Read more

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My definition of Love

Berscheid (2010) argues that love is difficult to define because of all the instances of love that exist: romantic love, fraternal love, friendship, which vary in much more than a degree of liking. Love is easy to recognize, nevertheless, so … Read more

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How to deal with your racist uncle

I see people constantly shaming other peoples’ identities on social media about racial issues (i.e. if you voted for Trump you’re racist) and I think: that ain’t going to help. So I wrote this, an explanation of why shaming doesn’t … Read more

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