Lana V Lynx
Bio
Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
Stories (220/0)
"You are not my daughter!"
I am alone. I feel empty. My belly is in pain and rumbling. It’s been a long time since I have seen people. I look out the window and watch people and children on the playground outside. The children are so happy, running around and laughing. I remember my own children laughing like that. A girl, Annie, and a boy, Paul. Seems like some time ago. But how long? I don’t remember.
By Lana V Lynx6 months ago in Fiction
"Don't Wash Your Raspberries!"
Last weekend, I was sick in a way that does not nail you to bed but makes you slow and unwilling to do anything. So, to stop feeling pity for myself and to do something productive I forced myself into berry-picking. I’d found another farm, not my usual Dillon Fruit Farm in Lisbon, Ohio, but a closer farm off SR-322 on the way to Cleveland, called Ransom Sage Farm, which I'd wanted to check out for some time. I decided October 7 was a good day for it, especially because it was supposed to get much colder on Sunday and raspberries are not good at handling the cold. This could have been my last chance at berry-picking this year.
By Lana V Lynx6 months ago in Lifehack
Chicken Bake Date
At Costco, a woman is moving her cart along with that of a very handsome lean man. She is pretty good-looking too, reminds me a little of Cameron Diaz. They are about the same age, probably in their late 40s. The woman is side-eyeing the man but he doesn’t seem to note. He is on a mission to fill up his cart as soon as possible and get out of here.
By Lana V Lynx6 months ago in Fiction
How to take over American trucking business
Fair warning: This is satire, albeit based in reality. I would never recommend anyone who is a good person to do this. 1. Start out by embezzling and stealing money in your high government official position in a small country. Move the money to a solid American bank. Quietly buy an investor visa.
By Lana V Lynx7 months ago in Motivation
Brief Modern History of Russia
Before 1917, Russian people’s life was miserable. The mostly agrarian country with a compulsory 25-year military service term for male peasants was fighting Germans in World War I and brewing in revolutions and pogroms since 1905. The Bolsheviks led by Lenin (a multi-lingual political Marxist and populist dreamer living in Germany at the time who had a bone to pick with Nikolas II, the Russian tzar) promised to take the country out of the war, redistribute the wealth by giving the factories to workers and land to peasants and to make people’s life better if they did the Revolution.
By Lana V Lynx7 months ago in History
The GULAG Archipelago
I've lived long enough now to feel that books rarely change me. Probably the last one was Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt that I read in 2004 or 2005, early in my doctoral program. Even then I wouldn't say that it changed me as much as it shook me in realization that human history was full of misery and suffering universally until quite recently and that we are probably living in the best human times in terms of life's comfort and personal security. And it all is incredibly fragile.
By Lana V Lynx8 months ago in BookClub
ChatGPT Hallucination Effect Illustrated
I have just started teaching a Public Relations Writing class today. My department has introduced the new AI policy which sounds as follows: "Students are allowed to use AI platforms for research (but: be mindful of the “hallucination effect”!) and generation of ideas. Partial use of AI-generated content is allowed in students’ original works such as home assignments, essays and final papers. However, similar to citing other primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, AI-generated content must be clearly referenced and attributed. Using AI-generated content without proper attribution will be treated as cheating and acted upon in accordance with the college policies on cheating."
By Lana V Lynx8 months ago in 01
The Master and Margarita - Critique
Bulgakov’s novel is arguably the world’s best-known work by a twentieth century Russian writer. However, Bulgakov would have been horrified that his “novel-temptation by evil” became a part of mass culture. He wrote it for one reader - Stalin - appealing to set free dissident writers kept in lunatic asylums.
By Lana V Lynx8 months ago in Critique