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.
Robert Frost’s Bill
One life never seemed enough to me. Sadly, it’s all I have. No worries, I’ll just learn everything.
… shit.