Joshua Reed
Bio
Welcome all. Here is a place for me to share my various inventions as the muses communicate them. I plan to follow the schedule below. I hope you enjoy!
Motivation Monday
Tech Tuesday
Writer Wednesday
Thoughtful Thursday
Fiction Friday
Stories (16/0)
Getting Lost In Their Woods
As the automatic doors to the airport opened, Christy saw the promised emerald hills of Ireland that the college brochure offered to her. She rolled several bags into a shared cab and took it to a temporary hotel while she waited for a room at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Filthy
- Top Story - July 2022
Are You Relying On Friends To Help Your Passion?Top Story - July 2022
I know I am. It’s almost impossible not to when you’re first starting an endeavor. I’m not sure how reliable my friends are when it comes to my art, though. I don’t want to sound like I’m ungrateful or that they don’t support me, because I feel the love, but I know that they don’t always have time. I don’t always have the money to support my friends that are trying to get a business started.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Humans
I Was Raised A Sore Loser, Here’s Why I’m Trying To Unlearn That
I entered the Vocal Media fantasy prologue challenge in high hopes that I would win. I didn’t; I fell flat on my face and didn’t even break the top 25. My story, “The Cure For The Pox”, is one of my favorite short stories that I’ve done. Despite positivity by support-bound friends, it didn’t manage to impress anyone else.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Confessions
Are You The -est Person In The Room?
I don’t care if you are and honestly, neither should you. Even if you’re the smartest, strongest, hardest worker in the room, there’s someone smarter, or stronger, or harder outside of the room. I guarantee it. The singular superlative person in any category is constantly shifting, and even if we could rank every person in the world, it wouldn’t matter.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Motivation
Blurring The Line Between Realities
Each day we are getting closer and closer to imitating creation itself. Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities (VR, AR, MR) have become ever popular in science fiction and science fact. But how far way are we really from being able to “dive” into a seamless experience with all five, or even more, senses? Well, experts say decades.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Futurism
The Way of Worldly Watermelon
From the moment the sweet summer staple touched my tongue, I had a favorite food forever. One of the first thoughts that a person pairs with the season of the sun is watermelon. The refreshing splash of juice as you bite into the perfect wedge just can’t be replaced by any other fruit—but it can be enhanced.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Feast
- Top Story - June 2022
Why I Am Becoming Comfortable Telling My Guy Friends That I Love Them.Top Story - June 2022
Because nothing makes me more uncomfortable. Like a lot of men, I grew up around an emotionally unavailable father. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a great guy and I love him, but he’s a product of his toxic upbringing. I’ve always had problems expressing my emotions to people, let alone my guy friends. Even expressing myself to those I’m closest with is hard.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Confessions
Out Of The Darkness And Into The Light
The attack was over in seconds. Those who were awake during the blackout remember a flash of darkness as if they had been struck unconscious. No one was unaffected, not even the most well known and the most powerful. When the shadows made their move, there was no amount of light that could conquer them.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Fiction
Solar panels can catch sunlight, but they can’t store it. This will fix the problem.
Sometimes to take a step forward, you have to go back and revisit the past. A team of chemists at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri went down to their local Home Depot and purchased a few bricks for 65 cents apiece in 2020. Then they started working their wizardry and alchemy to turn those bricks into supercapacitors, or a high-energy storage unit. It didn’t take long before they invented a way to make bricks smarter.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Futurism
And he said, “You couldn’t possibly hope to keep me down.”
Some days I feel as if the universe has strapped on sharp stilettos and stepped on my neck as if I enjoy being dominated. Today is one of those days. I slept in and took a nap shortly after I woke up, refused to get started on a list of habits I’m trying to develop, and waited until the last minute to begin drafting this article.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Motivation
Is the world becoming a cyborg?
The world is evolving around us, no doubt about it. How are we going to evolve beside it? Surely, not naturally, unless we find a way to speed up our biology. The only other way is by technology and augmentation. Some believe that we must become cyborgs, or cybernetic organisms, to keep up with the progression of society.
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Futurism
Creative block in your way? Try these 4 simple steps
It’s a unique kind of pain to sit in front of an empty document or in front of a time-sensitive problem and have nothing come to mind. I speak from a writer’s standpoint, but creative blocks can happen to anyone attempting to get things done. In my experience, there is nothing that makes me feel more bird-brained than a creative block. Here’s what I do to push past the obstacle:
By Joshua Reed2 years ago in Lifehack