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Posted by Bryan Healey on May 16, 2012 at 5:37 PM in Books
Earlier this week, I released the second short story (of a planned three) from the world of my forthcoming fantasy epic novel, entitled Kingdom of Ash. This story tells of Richard of Tenneth, the future head of the Holy Order, and his rise to prominence in the Nypolitic order. This short story is entitled Devotion, and is available today only on the Kindle (and various Amazon eBook applications) for 99 cents. To further encourage interest, I have included the leading quotation...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on May 15, 2012 at 1:53 PM in Thoughts (Writing)
One of the great revelations that I've been privy to in my short, odd life is that no one, and I do mean no one, really has any clue what they're doing. Each of us, every day, awakes and just... does stuff. Often, the particular stuff we do is dependent on the stuff that came before (life has a gathering quality); and when we do change our brand of stuff, for whatever reason, it is often born out of some encounter with some other form of stuff, somewhere in the past, that we found we enjoyed (or we think can make us rich). For most of my youth, I did not believe this true; and I don't think I was alone...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on May 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM in Random
What happened to the Surgeon General? I have fond memories from my childhood of his admonishments and terrifying recommendations nearly every other week, but lately: nothing. I would suspect terrorism, but I fear just the utterance may get me into trouble...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on May 14, 2012 at 4:15 AM in Science
For years, my weekly routine was outrageously predictable: five days of zombie-like exhaustion, trudging along in paralyzing routine from home to office to bed and back; then I arrive, triumphantly, upon the weekend! I engage in a rough average of seventeen hours of nightly sleep, barely bearing witness to the sun over the stretch, for two full days, awakening Sunday feeling energized and excited, prepared for the day! Yet on Monday, when it came, as it mostly did, all that weekend effort was mutilated by a single night's disaster...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on May 9, 2012 at 12:26 PM in Other
It is a dark day for civil rights; I fear how my generation and nation will be viewed by those to come. I don't wish to be counted amongst bigots and zealots, but with each day further, I worry I will have little say in the matter save for my single, lonely, angry voice. I may require a private island...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on May 7, 2012 at 1:07 PM in Random
I find it mildly unsettling to realize that I have minimal proof that history is as it has been told to me; or even that it existed at all, prior to my birth. All of history before my first memory has been granted through books and other instructional media created by other people, most of whom I've never met. If the inclination existed, I could have been given a coordinated series of lies and never known the difference, save for the occasional physical visitation to some historical object or place; even my memory could be fabricated- studies have proven long-term recollections to be astoundingly inaccurate. Perhaps I live in a planetary Seahaven, and am the subject of a grand psychological experiment; or perhaps I'm just odd. Maybe it's best to not concern myself with such things, lest the experimenters deem the experiment a failure and scrap the project entirely...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on May 5, 2012 at 2:10 PM in Science
I have come to believe that America is due, and in dire need of, a modern renaissance, a reinvigoration of culture and aptitude, a new birth of inspiration; a recognition of a life valued separately from the distractions of a grinding day for an earned dollar; a life free from debates on fiscal security and diplomacy (without arguing against the necessity of such things, I believe they should be supportive not dominant). Learning and advancement should be the driving force of motivation, and it would be pleasing perhaps to find it absent the pressing influence of an international conflict (although I'll take what I can get). For my sanity, I have to believe that we humans, planetary compatriots, the lot of us, are capable of unearthing passion born out of a desire to be better, to help others, to further discovery and knowledge, and not merely out of nationalistic fury or for monetary gain. Or, then again, maybe I've just been watching too many documentaries on the Apollo program and longing for a country in need of greatness; maybe I think too much. I'm going to go look up at the sky now, and dream...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on Apr 28, 2012 at 7:10 PM in Life (Writing)
I visited my childhood today; someone chopped down my favorite tree. With time to kill and a nostalgic mind, my new Honda, earned through years of stress-filled office-born effort, ambled itself through busy city streets and beyond fondly remembered stop signs to come resting alongside the sidewalks of my old stomping grounds. Stepping from the car, a cup of Starbucks in hand, my mind suddenly remembering a report that is due for the early afternoon on Monday, I suddenly gaze up, on a set of windows, the very same windows that I looked out from nearly eighteen years prior and two feet shorter...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on Apr 27, 2012 at 12:38 PM in Books
About one week ago, I released a very short excerpt out of the beginning of my forthcoming novel, Kingdom of Ash, which is slated to be released in the autumn of this year. Building upon that, I am today releasing the first of three short stories, available only on the Kindle (and various Amazon eBook applications), entitled Alestha. It tells the story of Brandin of Lotin, a farmhand born and raised in the southlands of this future world, who engages in a losing battle against the attempted forced...
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Posted by Bryan Healey on Apr 20, 2012 at 5:38 PM in Sports (Writing)
I would like to wish Fenway Park a very happy 100th birthday! On this date in 1912, the Red Sox left the Huntington Avenue Grounds and moved into their new Back Bay home, and have been there ever since. That park has given me many lovely (and sometimes terrible) memories over the years, and I hope for many more lovely memories to come! Go Sox!
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