It all started at the very, very, absolute end of everything. There was no crimson red sky announcing the apocalypse. It was quite sunny, although slightly smoky. Birds chirped, choked on the smog, repeated. Then came the thunder, trumpets, and angels descending. Almost the whole world was in awe. In a far off desert, anti-modern … Continue reading DEUS EX MACHINA
Author: jfigy
I'm a writer, vegetarian, musician, francophile, and student at UIndy. I have a beautiful GF/editor, a big family, two rabbits, and a devil cat.
Peering from the lighthouse deck, the ocean stretches like a sheet for a bed with edges _____________that no toes _____________can overhang— green grass & crags trap thin layers of sand between the sharp sloping shore and sea; millennia of subduction pinstriped the metamorphic rock fashionable, igneous collisions, _____________& layered granite _____________slabs—unsliced kitchen counters— with the … Continue reading Pemaquid Point, Maine, 2013
One week ago, I asked Stephanie Snay to marry me. We went to the IMA to see the Neo-Impressionist Portrait exhibit, and when we left, I said we should go for a walk in the 100 Acres. The weather was changing from the previous week's pleasant October-in-July back into the muggy, blinding Indiana summers that … Continue reading How we got engaged
Yesterday, I covered the Mooresville fireworks celebration at Pioneer Park. I did this last year, too, when I was an intern for The Reporter-Times. But this year they didn't need a story, just photos. Since I was simply taking photos, I wanted to get some good shots. But there was one shot in particular that I … Continue reading O say can you see…?
The sports seasons are all over. The tournaments have wound down. And my time as a sports writer is over for now. Many games ended how I expected, while others had surprising outcomes. Although I had written about sports for The Reflector, I didn’t think of myself as a sports writer per se. But I … Continue reading What I learned from writing about sports
The day I saw the hives, Stephanie and I swapped bee stories. Honeybee facts, statistics, jargon—this was our dinner conversation, while everyone else in the restaurant talked about the Pacers or something. We were eating Thai food that was abnormally hot. Yes, I know that Thai is known to be spicy, but this was so … Continue reading The Bee’s Knees
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get … Continue reading From “The 400-Pound CEO”
I'm not the biggest sports fan out there. But I like a challenge, to get to test my abilities in areas that, let's say, are not my strongest. So when The Reporter-Times asked me to cover some spring sports, I said yes without thinking twice. It wasn't like I went in completely ignorant of sports. … Continue reading The Sporting Life
As a staff writer at BuzzFeed, Lara Parker spends her days figuring out how to make list articles—"listicles"— that will go viral. And she loves it. Just last year, though, she was a recent UIndy grad trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life. I was working at a PR agency at … Continue reading Lara Parker: BuzzFeed staff lister extraordinaire
James Figy 