Neon Leviathan

“how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”                                                  ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey   I’m pretty sure I turned eighteen recently since the last troll attack; I’ve lost track of time. And the days have seemed longer than usual traveling by myself for this long. All I remember from recent days is a lot of running, carnage, and sweat. To be fair, I expected my senior year of high school to be the most exciting but didn’t have “the world ends with magic-wielding trolls attacking humanity” on my bingo card of what things would happen to me. Just my luck as always, I suppose.             What I do remember from the last attack is Sebas...

                           Ever elusive and fleeting to many, love can be a rather difficult emotion, experience, journey, or four-letter word to concretely define. Whatever type of love one is speaking about, it becomes increasingly more difficult to express love once someone else is on the receiving end of its meaning. Raymond Carver attempts to inch people closer to a definition of love in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” a short story involving two couples, and their conversation on what they believe love means. Two couples debate and share stories about the type of love they believe to be the true representation of love. Even if it contradicts their current love for their significant other, each person is steadfast in their belief. The conflict the characters engage in reveals the true nature of their relationships, and their point of view seems to waver in the end. Each character has their...