Welcome

Welcome to Interface. Here, I intend to publish, and I use this term lightly, various pieces of my writing.

I am a senior at an American university. I study biology, but I also have some focus in Japanese language as well. I am 21 years old, and I began writing seriously a year ago. I write because, ultimately, I am trying to, as a friend once wrote, "exorcise" certain emotions and feelings from myself. Some of them are positive, and some negative. Far too often, however, I think, these feelings are filled with a kind of yearning or desperation. This yearning is not something I wish to carry by myself, and by writing, I hope to constrain these images and thoughts within the prison of text, so that they might stop haunting me.

My writing is about ghosts. Sometimes, this is a literal interpretation, but, generally, I am talking about the ghosts of ideas. I am talking about those haunting images half seen at twilight, or those aching feelings that pass in instants. I am talking about the deep, deep hollownesses of the winter, and the inexplicable ecstasies of the summer. I am talking about the sorrow of loss, and loss of things perhaps still present. I am talking about the ghosts of all our yesterdays that today still wander, perhaps with or without purpose.

In naming these specters, I hope to both dispel and preserve them. Their stark, unsettling negativity is something I don't believe anyone wants to keep around very long, and yet, those feelings are so very valuable to our understanding of ourselves. In writing, I want the ghosts to take shape and vanish from my sight, unburdening me, but leaving me an outlet to explore what messages they brought.

So, of course, I write for myself. But, I also write for a certain reader. That reader isn't really a specific person, or group, but rather anyone who thinks. I want my ideas to be consumed and processed by another. I want them to read what they write, and then tell me what they think about it. I love how others point out elements of your writing that you haven't even intended, and in many ways, their interpretations of events are far more astute than yours. I'm looking for any human who will read what I write and think about it. I'm also looking for criticism. If you think what I write sucks, please say so! I only want to improve. I also want to write for those people who may be struggling to do away with the same ghosts as I am. Not all of us are so lucky to be able to find words for these things, so maybe I can be of some assistance. Together, we may reach some conclusion about all this living nonsense.


The writing you can expect is mostly in a sort of sci-fi, fantasy vein. Think along the lines of Andrei Tarkovsky films, or Haruki Murakami novels. It will be strange, and overly sensitive, and a little bizarre at times, but I think what I write is worth reading. So, stick around!

I have chosen to write this blog because it gives me a release schedule, and allows this mouldering pile of writing on my hard drive to find an audience, no matter how small. With that said, let the publishing commence!