Colton Babladelis
Bio
I'm a nature lover that tries to capture the beauty and darkness of life in my poetry. I'm also a sci-fi and fiction fanatic and am branching my own writing out into short stories.
Stories (15/0)
The Foxy Cafe: The World’s First AI Art Gallery
Early one morning, Raven fired up her computer and prepared for another day of developing marketing materials for her gallery when she got a message labeled “New AI tool - might interest you." She grabbed her fresh cup of espresso and mulled over the message before digging into work for the day, savoring the strong roasted smell before taking a sip. Originally a software engineer in a prior life, she had burned out on the tech career grind and left behind the technology world, along with the whole Bay Area. In the intervening years, she bounced around from city to city, until she visited Barcelona and felt at home amongst the gothic architecture and careening spires of Gaudi.
By Colton Babladelis8 months ago in Fiction
Who even cares who John Galt is?
Rand’s masterpiece of the human spirit, “Atlas Shrugged,” demonstrated that I can both appreciate the strength of writing while fundamentally disagreeing with the core philosophy of the work. The brutal entanglement of individual happiness and productivity miss the mark on the true beauty of the human spirit - boundless kindness.
By Colton Babladelis8 months ago in Critique
The New Great Blue Hole, or Alice Underwater
All I thought as we slowly descended was how lucky we were. The new great blue hole was recently discovered, and there was a high level of confidence that it came from an ancient asteroid strike. At the depth where all colors besides blue are absent, we saw a shimmering white oval. “Bubbles” my partner signaled. We swam down to find the source, and the second they touched us everything turned upside down. I landed on something hard, and my mask was knocked from my face. I panicked, blind at one hundred meters deep, except I was on dry land.
By Colton Babladelis12 months ago in Fiction
