The Areson Stories

       There are two kinds of people who mass consume things. One group calls themselves critiques or consoles, that they merely ingest a lot because they are trying to find the best and must weed out all the horrible things in order to find it. The other group lets themselves be called gluttons, they arguably enjoy what they are consuming more because they don’t need to feel the need to explain themselves to anyone. Alice knew which group she belonged to.      Alice was a story glutton. Her love was in the classic tomes of Sherlock Holmes, Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, and Don Quixote . It also had spread to Hunger Games, A Matter of Days, The Fault In Our Stars, Ready Player One, and Harry Potter. Her love touched poetic longing and trashy romance alike. It danced in battles and in dark alleys. It covered innocence to sin with a gentle touch. It lingered in the plots of movies, from the Oscar winners to the b movies found in the free bin at a Goodwill. It had settled like a cloud

A Little Talk About Inequality     It's hard to write about inequality when you’re white, when you know it’s easy for you because you’ve never had that fight. But I am a writer and my words are my weapons. Violence isn’t the answer to the problems we’re facing but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight. It’s easier to ignore all the problems that you hear about just because they don’t affect you or those you care about. But we have to stop pretending we can’t see. While those with the power to change sit in their places of power and look down from above people still have to fight for the right to live and love. And it's not right. Maybe we say all created equal but it's a lie and we know it because there are so many born without the right to speak and there are so many who are denied the freedom to think. Life’s not fair but we don’t have to just let it be unjust too. We say we’re all free but are we really? When there are so many who have to live in fear every day knowing th