Adam McLain
Adam McLain is a PhD student in the department of English at the University of Connecticut and an incoming 1L at UConn Law. He researches and writes on dystopian literature, legal theory, and sexual justice. He has a BA in English, editing, and women’s studies from Brigham Young University, a master of theological studies, emphasizing in women, gender, sexuality, and religion, from Harvard University, and a MA in English from the University of Connecticut.
Chosen Tapir
Tappy the Tapir was about to turn eight. He knew that he would have to make this big choice, so he went around to all his neighbors to ask them how they made their own big choice.
Consecrated Murder
Dryden led Amarilla through a series of passageways within the inner sanctum of the templus.
Veiled Ruin
Amarilla knew one thing: what she was looking at was going to change the world. No, not just this world, the entire universe.
Primordial Bigfoot
The following is a transcript from the Seven Hundred and Seventy-Sixth Pre-Deseret, Proto-Millennial, Post-Latter-day Conference (776 PDPMPLC), held on Lamoni Moon Conference Center, 25 Nep. 2209.
Haunted Grove
The Shadow lived in the forest. Really, it was a specific grove of trees that the Shadow had been told to stay in from the dawn of time.
Essaying; or, Why I Blog
To Think
Writing is a spiritual experience. It is a movement toward greater understanding of myself and the world around me. It is a journey toward apotheosis as I come to know my humanity better through the words I write. I write because it allows me to ruminate on a subject, not coming to a definitive conclusion, but rather opening the door to understanding, even in just a little way, the simple complexity and complex simplicity of the universe that surrounds us.
To Share
Writing is a communal experience. It is meant to communicate thoughts across words in order to form other thoughts in other beings. Those thoughts do not come perfectly thought-for-thought, word-for-word, but in their imperfection, there is a connection, a community that is formed between you and me. A joining. A unity.
To Experience
Writing is an experience. Taking the time to consider something and then to write about it allows one to experience and re-experience an event, a moment, a text.