Brian A. Plank's Blog

THE COUNTDOWN TO YESTERDAY HAS BEGUN 

It has been a while since I have posted an update or article here… 

I may have posted an article or two on my website during Covid, but I haven’t been adding new posts. Why? Because like many of us, my world has been turned upon on its head over and over, and then flip-flopped, slam-jammed, and ass-fucked a several more times. And it is getting worse.  

I won’t even start with my political views… 

I believe Covid deeply affected everyone’s mental...

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Symptoms of schizophrenia include psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorder (unusual ways of thinking), as well as reduced expression of emotions, reduced motivation to accomp...

August 14, 2021

Welcome back friends, fans, and curious onlookers!

Where to begin…

I can’t believe that summer is nearly two-thirds over. The days are getting shorter, but the heat is still as brutal as ever. On a global level, one thing has become apparent – climate change is real. I think that even some of the hardcore naysayers are finally admitting that something needs to be done yesterday.

It’s been a whirlwind month for me. I have a few things on the go…

I am having a “soft”...

CHAPTER 1 – TWINKLE, TWINKLE…

I am a Creator.

Always have been… always will be.

I am also an optimist – although not unwavering. Enthusiastic eternally optimistic optimists bug the shit out of me – I need time to lament every day. If I didn’t, I would be a fool – that is when some of my best work is accomplished. I need a balance between being social and alone with my thoughts.

Admittedly, I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve. Such is evidenced by my telling you just now.

I know t...

I wrote this article back in early May 2020 but didn’t post it because I didn’t want to be yet another writer throwing his two-bits into the so-called coin pool opining on the Corona Virus, (or Covid-19, or whatever you prefer.)

I’m anxious. I’m paranoid. I’m not sure how to feel. I don’t know who to trust. I’m bored.

This is all too surreal.

I’ve been waiting for my alarm clock to wake me up for about eight weeks now.

Suddenly, over the past few months what may seem to many as the A...

A teaser/excerpt from the short story by Brian A. Plank.

As of now, I am inside your mind.

Having said that, you have already formed your next thought.

And again, now you’ve moved on to your next idea.

If only time would stand still, perhaps you could catch up with your thoughts…

I am betting odds over evens that your current thoughts are a mix of confusion and curiosity. And they are intensifying as you continue to wait for me to end this sentence and begin to reveal what I am ab...

A teaser/excerpt from the short story by Brian A. Plank.

By the age of 3 years I knew that there was something significantly different about me…

From birth, I was extremely introverted and quite sensitive. And without a doubt – at least in my opinion – quite weird. Rather than embracing my eccentricities most of the other kids and their parents frowned upon or looked down on me. This added to my insecurities – which caused me to behave even odder. I was stuck riding on a circle constantly ...

A teaser/excerpt from the short story by Brian A. Plank.

First of all, please do not ask me who I am. What is most important is who – or what – I am not.

I am not an optimist, nor am I a pessimist – I am an opportunist. And when an opportunity presents, I pounce with acute precision. Make no mistake – I am as clever as clever can be – I guarantee you will never be able to completely outwit me.

I will state now, and I am sure I will again later: I do not give a shit about you. My sole pu...

His name was Olin Greene. We met in kindergarten, where we quickly became best friends.

We were both 5-years old. Olin lived in a geared-to-income survey that had been built around the corner from my house only two years earlier – not that his address or location meant anything to me at the time.

Until I turned five, I couldn’t venture away from my street – Mom insisted that I always be within her field of sight. But as soon as I hit five, my world opened a little more. Wide-eyed and eager...

The last straw had finally been pulled.

On May 25th, 2020, a middle-aged respectable black man named George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer while three of his fellow officers stood by watching. It was captured on video; the horrifying images quickly went viral.

It was the modern-day “shot heard throughout the world.”

As has happened so many times in the past, there were protests and riots displaying the an...