Adam McLain

Adam McLain is a PhD candidate in the department of English at the University of Connecticut and a JD candidate 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Restored Lake Bonneville

Proposal: The Restore Lake Bonneville Project

Posted: 18 Mos. 2219, @brighamsbeard2199

Seeking: Feedback

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Tormented Cowboy

Haspar wasn't sure what had led him out to the frontier of Bronze Deseret to be a lone ranger. Perhaps it had something to do with being born in Bronze Deseret in the first place, the telestial empire, the third when it came to goods.

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.