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I felt them on the back of my neck
Icy eyes with dangling fingers
Scraping just above the skin
Pulling at the fine hairs

I stop
And turn my head
Feet still planted
Narrowing my eyes
The porch void of any human gaze

I turn back, slowly, scratching at the back of my neck
Gravel now grinding under my shuffling feet
No one was there
No one was watching

And I begin to shuffle away faster

© Mike Yost

This entry was posted on January 24, 2018 by Mike Yost (Photographer/Writer. It was filed under Fiction, Photography and was tagged with black & white, black and white, eyes, porch swing, street photography, swing, watching.

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Mike Yost

Coffee Fuels Photography

Why photography?

We’re forever locked within a specific set of limited perceptions and spatial relationships. This vision we enjoy is defined by cells stacked in the eye. These cells only absorb and process a small portion of the entire spectrum of light.

We see so little of what is truly out there.

I try to use the camera to deviate from those familiar perceptions, to reframe those spatial spaces, to expose thin slices of time that change our relation to experiences teeming with unknowns, flashes of awe, and beauties unseen.

Or in the words of Bob Ross: “Beauty is everywhere.”

My First Novel

Click to Read!

Why writing? Why a novel?

It was my catharsis.

Being gay in the Air Force during Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was lonely. Believing I was damned to hell for being gay was frightening.

I had to find a way to navigate depression, lots of suicidal ideation, and a life that felt void of purpose.

Reading fiction and studying philosophy helped build a sense of meaning, woven together with mere words.

I merged the two into a novel, five characters woven together into a single narrative.

The characters are based on the five existential archetypes outlined in Simone du Beauvoir’s, The Ethics of Ambiguity.

The Nihilist
The Sub-human
The Adventurer
The Serious Man
The Passionate Man

I’ll leave you philosopher lovers out there to figure out which character belongs to which existential archetype.

Writing this book saved my life. It’s a pretty good read, too!

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