30-Degree Shift
Reality is a mass of reasons; I’m just here to map the gravity. 30-Degree Shift is a weekly publication of essays exploring the structural irony of the world through a neurodivergent lens. Whether it’s special relativity, the craft of fiction, or the sensory weight of a blue-buttercream cake, I’m looking for how light bends around our baggage.
TL;DR - My brain is a messy equation and I’m trying to solve it on the chalkboard in front of class.
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30-Degree Shift is a weekly column by William T. Torgerson
Sunrise
One hour, twenty-six minutes to sunrise. Eleven hours, fifty-one minutes until sunset. The numbers are precise, but the experience is blurred at the edges — a consequence of the human veil thrown over a celestial guise.
Short Story: Ad-Free Porn - The Dream
Today, I took a break from the rift and ventured into the near-future. Or, at least it’s one of them. In this episode of The Crossroads, we explore a world where originality is mined, hunted, and highly valued on the black market.
Some Notes on Walking
There is more complexity and beauty in ambulary locomotion than we give it credit for. Sadly, the only spotlight walking receives is one’s first steps.
Love Bugs
The love bugs are everywhere, coating surfaces like paint overspray – harmless and annoying.
Easier to Remove the Option
I have one tick. I think it’s a tick.
Commit!
It is a tick.
On Receiving a Package
Receiving a package is so much more powerful that it used to be. From junk mail to drunken purchases, we truly live in the best time of history.
A Convenient Theory of History
We assume the grand and mysterious structures of the ancient world to have been constructed for equally grand ambitions: religion, astronomy, legacy, the afterlife, what have you.
But isn’t the truth obvious?