Tag: hiking culture

The Confessional

Post author By cleanshave
Post date May 30, 2025
Categories In Cozy Dystopian Noir, Fiction, Short Story
1 Comment on The Confessional

The pen felt foreign between my bandaged fingers, like trying to thread a needle wearing winter gloves. I stared at the blank page of my trail journal, the one constant companion that had traveled with me through five years of seasons. The paper remained stubbornly empty while my thoughts churned like whitewater over unseen stones. […]

Building a Social Media Democracy

Post author By cleanshave
Post date May 29, 2025
Categories In Non Fiction

I’m writing this shirtless and sweating in Mexico, window open as the Florida thatch palm rustles in a slight passing breeze. A month and a half shy of my ten-year anniversary of walking away from society, 07/20/15, a date tattooed on my right leg as a reminder to keep walking. A decade of living out […]