Kent Wayne

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  • Musings

    I’ve seen the idea of “etiquette” confined to fancy clothes, teacups with outstretched pinkies, and stiff backsides. But contemplating zendos, street gangs, soldiers, hippies…I realized that true etiquette is realizing that every culture has their own communicative style, and that to recognize and accommodate that is piercingly aware, while denying and disdaining it is stubbornly…

  • Musings

    In between the prisons of jaded cynicism and rabid faith there exists a fluid awareness.

  • Musings

    Religious/societal greats essentially restate their predecessor’s words.  And yet we have to hear it over and over, because we misinterpret/cling to whoever was last. The fact that established wisdom needs constant reiteration underscores the importance of investigating/adapting teachings to present-day reality. Mindless devotion to tradition is perilous.  Context is key.

  • Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    Holiday season, late December.  I’m walking the streets. I see an elderly lady getting boxed in by a gang of ne’er-do-wells.  Maybe 15 of them.  Alarmed, she realizes what’s about to go down.  I reach for my phone to call the cops.  Before I dial, the muggers rush in and she jumps onto a railing,…

  • Musings

    Both disciplined persistence and brash audacity are separately championed, but rarely have I heard the truth:  Which is that both are needed. I’ve seen the disciplined toil endlessly away but falter when it comes time to take that spectacular, once-in-a-decade shot.  I’ve seen the bold refuse to discipline themselves, never acquiring the conditioning to weather severer environments.…

  • Musings

    Cliches/aphorisms captivate the ear with their rhythm and well-oiled logic.  But to investigate them, to see EXACTLY where they fail/become applicable… That’s how to look beyond their shiny veneer and glimpse that true, organic wisdom.  The wisdom that has a life of its own and allows a person to walk into an unknown/adverse situation with…

  • Echo Volume 2: The Taste of Ashes, Chapter 1 Free Sample

    To all you awesome guys who bought Volume 1, here’s the first chapter of volume 2.  Socioeconomic commentary, spiritual life/death bridge analogues, themes of attachment through worldly suffering…but who cares about that!  In this chapter we have crazy cannibals, one-liners, urban apocalyptic wastelands!  I love spectacle as much as the next beer-guzzler!  Even if you…

  • Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel

    “[The Crusader’s gun’s] charge temporarily tethered custom-ballasted dark matter to the bullet, giving it an artificial weight and preserving its aerodynamic properties.” -Chapter 12 of Echo, Volume 1, describing how a hollow bullet folded out of ultralight, nearly weightless metal is given the mass/weight it needs to function. I love pseudoscientific babble that may one…

  • Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel: News

    An awesome lady by the name of renee reblogged Echo on her site: Thanks Renee! You are AWESOME!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 !!!

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