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Aurora’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Aurora’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Rory Hatchel
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in Richmond, VA, The United States
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October 2013
Declaring Yourself
Two weeks ago I self-published my first “novel.” I say that in quotations because it’s sort of a hybrid of a collection of short stories and a unified narrative from multiple POVs. So, even as I write this post and I try to celebrate my publication, you’ll see I have a lot of work to go to true self-validation. I can’t help but undercut myself even now.
A week ago, I got to do an AMA on r/Fantasy Read more of this blog post »
A week ago, I got to do an AMA on r/Fantasy Read more of this blog post »
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“Every now and then, I realize that it’s been months since I’ve been touched. I can’t tell you how dark it feels. When I can’t be alone in my apartment anymore, I walk the riverside and the streets and the campus in my neighbourhood, and the quiet feels like it’s going to kill me. Yes, sometimes there are people, and sometimes they’re even with each other, and sometimes I can even see their faces—but that’s worse, somehow. Because there’s such an undeniable reason underlying the fact that I cannot get close to them. In the sickest, most awful way, it feels like being a teenager again. All these strangers, they have lives and they’re going on without you and what you can do is nothing, nothing, nothing but walk alone and sit in your room. Supposedly, one day, life will be different, but how does that mean anything and how can you believe that? The strangers say they’re feeling the same way. I know I should believe they are.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Five Short Novels of Stendhal
― Five Short Novels of Stendhal
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― No man is an island – A selection from the prose
― No man is an island – A selection from the prose
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
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