This is a collection of short stories, poems, ponderings, and other musings spanning the time from when I was a young boy until the time I became a young man. In it, an assigned process essay (which I turned into a narrative process essay) meets bad and random poetry, journal entries mostly dealing with relationships and culture shock, a monologue by my future wife, and realistic fiction which many would call dystopian. Among the things I talk about in it are love, death, greed, confusion, lust, revenge, spirituality, politics, doom, despair, success, and triumph - so there's something for everybody.