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Music is the victor, I the victim, It throbs within my heart like tribal drums, Routs my will and razes me gradatim, And causes, wreaks such pandemonium. Why so silken-tongued, oh fairest damsel? The world is echoing with clam’rous din, I cannot hear the sounds of nature knell, You captivate, prevent my list’ning in. But when I stumble music seizes me, And leads me o’er the ragged rumbly road, Despite its prior actions, though obscene, Its haunting lullaby relieves my load. The thought of mus...

The front door of the house slammed shut, leaving the knocker beating gently against the outside. Shoes clicked furiously across the foyer and Maxmilian could hear the rustling of skirts. He peered over the banister on the staircase. His wife was in the process of taking the pins out of her hat and unbuttoning her coat. Flakes of snow still lingered in her luxurious dark hair, wrapped in a chignon at the base of her neck. As she turned on her heel to hang up her outerwear, he could see the fe...

I’ll forget a lot of things before I forget that night. No one died. No one abandoned me. I didn’t fall in or out of love. No one I knew was even there. And that one event, those few precious minutes that flashed by, did not concern me. I twisted my head to watch it pass. I watched it without permission, without invitation. Those seconds, ticking by, changed my life permanently. The world is bleak. Its state is grim. Its future is unwritten. Humans prove, every day, they are capable of the m...

There you sit, innocently awaiting yet another Ruggles essay. Just look at your shining, eager faces and your patient smiles! So young, so naïve, so pure! Little do you know you are surrounded by something… unnatural. They lurk in this very room and they are taking over. Who are they, you ask? Nerds. Nerds, freaks, geeks, dorks, techies – they are everywhere, standing out in the crowd of lemmings like neon signs. A good teenage movie is not a good teenage movie without a high-quality nerd. Fo...