User blog comment:Jdeschene/Common Themes/@comment-26475800-20180502121422

Off the top of my head I can think of two things that I normally write about. First is drugs, and it’s always in a more negative light. Jenna, Withdrawals, and Voice Messages all have something to do with drugs in one way or another. While Jenna is the only one that is solely about drug abuse, the others have either a misleading quality or slight undertone to it where drugs were implied. The reason for this is easy, I was a heavy drug addict. I’ve done everything from pot to heroine, and now I’m clean.

The second is a little more political. Ironically, I have a tendency to take jabs at things the left hold dear, including college and healthcare. But the one that I go after the most is college. To the Moon, The Nothingness in the Center of the Room, and Voice Messages all have something to do with college. Two of those stories, the “well educated” people are either killed off or completely stupid, and one talks about how stupid it is to pay so much money on an education but never apply it. I suppose another story that kind of takes a jab at college is Blobster, but that one I haven’t read in a while and don’t remember if I cut those college jabs out. The reason I take jabs at college, and the political left, is because I don’t agree with either for the most part.

The last think I can think of that pops into my stories a lot, and it’s pretty much a twofer, are monsters and religion. While religion isn’t as much on a lot of the stories I have on this site, there is at least one that I can say without question does and that’s Spirit Bottles. As for monsters, that makes up a good amount of my work: To the Moon, Blobster, Voice Messages, Bedtime for My Daughter, and a bunch of other stories all deal with some kind of monster. And that’s just because I like monsters and religions. Nothing more that that.

Now that this shameless plug is done, I have to get ready to jump on a plane.