Stories and Poetry By Tyler Golec
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The Lost
Open window leading to starry eyed ends Dreams of need but never resting I have seen the best of us Staring out screen less expanse Asking why should I walk away Why should I try again Generations of youths ruined Following the path following the rules Great expanses of nothingness opening before them Wandering…
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A Fall Sunday, 2016
Google maps says the bus should have been here at 1:26. It was 1:29 at that point. The bus may have been early, but I had been at the stop for five minutes. More likely, it was late. Seattle in the early fall wasn’t a bad place to wait. It wasn’t raining today, and I…
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West Taipei, Insight of a Passer By
街拍 【致我親愛的西方讀者】美國人泰瑞：你聽過台灣嗎？你認識台北嗎？ 2018-08-30 撰文 Tyler W. Golec 攝影 李尚謙 中譯 胡芷嫣 嚮導 西城編輯群・Chun Lu・陳鈺鈞 我們再也沒有為了重諾守信而葬身大水的風險了。然而現在，正是現在，這些遙遠的神祇，或許比任何時候都要來得親密地，守護著那些仍舊祭拜祂們的人們——那些至今還沒有忘卻祂們的台灣百姓們。或許會有更多台灣人，睜開眼看見就在十分鐘捷運之外的台北老城歷史。又或許我只是比較幸運，能透過一些仍然在乎的發熱眼神，看見老派台灣的風景。也或許，我們只是在一切都灰飛堙滅以前，親眼見證時光殘存的少數人。 There’s no risk of drowning here from flood water anymore. There is no need to take your own life, so you and your brother can patrol the streets as gods. Now perhaps these gods, more personal than ever, offering their eternal protection to those who will…
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ICE
Tyler Golec Ice Howl howl Ginsberg once cried Longing but hopeful Into the cool crooning night And we listened Some Not enough, But we listened. Now too few howl The silence has crept in Moloch has won The night that once, Simply appeared long, Shall never end. Frost was wrong, This world shall not end in…
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A Long Strange Trip: Welcome to Taiwan
Tyler Golec, “It has been a long strange trip,” said Chris when my part was all done. It all began though in July 2014. “America made me rich!” The Taiwanese-Japanese said again. “What did you do?” I asked, accepting another beer. “I was a bartender,” he said. “I sold beer at a store before…
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Their Battle For, Part II: A Gravitational Shift
A sci-fi short story by Tyler Golec Year: 73 SA The LU had pulled back from the front in the moments before they set off the nukes. Now they were trying to reestablish their positions before the UNE could reestablish their assault. That meant Tony had to venture out in his radiation suit with his…
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A Good Love
Tyler Golec, I think a good love would be watching animes curled up and together free of ostentation when we have to read subs because we caught up to the dub
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Their Battle For, Part I: A Bloody Beginning
It was a beautiful day, he lamented. He felt something like grief fill him – melancholy. There had been and would be thousands and thousands more deaths today; his only desire was to watch the dunes in the fading light.
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Princesses of Muerning, part 2
Chapter 4: Maureen found her teacher in the kitchen preparing Tea. “Good morning,” He greeted her. “Morning,” She said. “Thank you.” She accepted a mug of tea. “I hope I didn’t burn you in the dream.” “No, I cannot be harmed there,” He said with a smile. “However,” He laughed. “Be gentle with me…
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Princesses of Muerning, part 1
Chapter 1 A long time ago, this story began in a castle, as stories like this often do. Its towers rose from the mountainous slopes like crystal spears, as cold and hard as the ice of the mountain that the castle was carved from. It was warm inside though, where the two sisters played. One…
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