Patrick Sweet
Stories (6/0)
- Top Story - July 2022
SUPER TACOTop Story - July 2022
Customer service is a strange thing. you go somewhere, see someone working there, they seem happy or at least, like a normal person, and they greet you. They assist you with problems, they try to make you comfortable and then when you leave, hopefully you think back fondly on the fact you had a pleasant experience and this employee helped make that happen. then at a later point in time you get your first job in customer service, and the truth is revealed to you.
By Patrick Sweet2 years ago in Confessions
How Do I Write a Dialogue!?
You have an idea for a story. You've brainstormed a few characters and maybe you even began the narrative. Things are going great, then you realize the world in your story is full of mute, non-interacting characters who just seem to know what the other people are thinking or doing because none of them, ever, speak. You have a cast full of players with no lines. WHAT TO DO!? We realize as readers that the characters need to make sense with what they say, otherwise we never see them as real characters. There needs to be actual thoughts and emotions behind their words and actions, but the idea of making that happen ourselves seems impossible sometimes, or scary, and we don't know where to begin. I found Questions are the best place to start.
By Patrick Sweet2 years ago in Journal
Spirit Over Time
2007 was a difficult year for my family. I was 18 years old and graduating high school. Under normal circumstances this would be a cause for celebration for most people, but for me, it reminded me of a missing factor in my life. My father had passed away that very same year in the month of February. He would not be present for my graduation ceremony, he wouldn't help me purchase my first automobile, he wouldn't see me marry, and most of all, he wouldn't see me become the man I was supposed to be. These thoughts plague me still, though that is not what this story is about. This story, is about something more.
By Patrick Sweet2 years ago in Families
Spirit Cross-Walk
What awaits us after life has long been a topic for discussion. I myself believe in an after life, but I also believe in the unexplained that can usually only be referred to as the paranormal or ghost stories. Though I believe they exist, I do not believe they are as flashy as some tv shows and movies make them out to be. I have never experienced floating orbs of light, obscured figures walking about, or disembodied voices. The experiences I have are few and far between, but real enough and strange enough that give me reason to believe there is more than what meets the eye, or is even easily understood by science or religion without crossing over the boundary lines of death itself.
By Patrick Sweet2 years ago in Families