Dan In Real Life Q&A

2) What are 3 tips you would give parents of teenagers?

• Make them understand the consequences of their actions
• Trust your kids. You raised them, after all.
• Procrastination - teach against it early.
• Be open minded.
• Just as your kids have to listen to you, you have to listen to your kids.

4)  With his speeding and falling in love so fast, do you think Dan wants his kids to "do as I say, not as I do"? Is that fair?
Dan does want his kids to do as he says, not as he does. It is fair, in my opinion. It's just how parents are. They just want their kids to be the best they can. Regardless of mistakes, Dan wants his kids to be the best.

7) Can you know in three days that you love someone?
In my opinion, no, you can't know in 3 days. Typically in 3 days, not a lot is known about the other person. Most of the time, they are just getting to know each other. Even if you think you know everything about one another, chances are you might not.

13) Do you think well-traveled people like Marie are more interesting than the rest of us?
It depends. Such a person could still have a boring personality or could be awful at storytelling. However, I think that well-traveled people are almost inherently more interesting. They can just talk about so much more than things outside of rustic peoples' bubbles. They bring so many different cultures and stories. These topics are more interesting than regular stories, because they're so different in culture.

Looking Out

Rolling hills, seemingly endless,

fill my forwards vision.

A large, moss-ridden plateau of rock,

invading my leftmost field of view.

The sun is crested by its height, 

blocking light.

The wheat has grown remarkably,

the same altitude as me.

It blows in the wind, casually,

with a lackadaisical breeze.

The wind is always blowing, always moving the leaves and crops.

Even in summer days,

the wind gusts violent as winter gales.

In the distance, lies a water tower,

breaching the light blue skyline.

Further, nearly invisible,

another house akin,

to the very one I am in.

Six Word Memoir

SLEEP.

EAT.

LAUGH.

LIVE.

SLEEP.

SLEEP.

The Happenings of the Unexplained Adumbration

It was a dark and stormy night, every night.

For 2 years now, it has been that way. Not a single ray, glimmer, radiation, gleam, glint, glow, or twinkle of light, absolute nothingness. I wasn’t even sure how such a thing could happen. Astronomers and scientists had predicted we had at least another century. Well, that was until Astriedes came. Astriedes, the astronomical nickname given to the asteroid that caused a cataclysm of an entire solar system.

2 years ago, an absolutely colossal asteroid was sighted outside of our solar system. Far bigger than any we had ever seen. It was at least three times the size of our Sun, and it was predicted that it would simply pass, no collision, nearly 100% certainty, they said. Well nearly 100% was obviously not 100%. The asteroid's course began to change drastically and wildly, for completely unbeknownst reasons. Predictions of the new course began to differ across the world, and it was clear that no one had a perfect answer. Society began to clamor and panic. Economies crashed and cities were fled. Highways were hampered and people were filled with dread. It would seem as though the societal apocalypse had begun before the physical one started. As everyone frenzied and crazed, the asteroid began to come closer and closer to our solar system.

            Terribly, it was heading towards the center of our solar system, and the center of life, the Sun. “The ramifications of the impact, or possibly the destruction of our Sun are indescribably calamitous”, scientists reported. As if the hysteria that was taking place was not enough, this only fueled the fire into an inferno.
            Honestly though, it didn’t matter that humanity was panicking, that reporters were reporting, or anything else, not anymore.
            On the evening of August 7^th, 2032, Astriedes pulverized the Sun into a puny pile of nothingness. The Sun was unconditionally annihilated. Since light travels at a speed and is not an instantaneous transmission, light from the Sun continued to hit Earth, and no one knew about the collision until about 15 minutes afterwards, when a scientist peered into his infrared telescope and saw the end of the solar system.
            Now, I live out my days on the edge of survival, buried underground in the depths of this cold, desolated planet, where it is so cold that if you even step foot outside you are instantly frozen. I’m nearly out of supplies, and I fear that the extinction of the human race and Earth has materialized.