Author Archive: Eric San Juan
Eric San Juan
April 9, 2024
Pexels There are many reasons someone may want to boost their intelligence. Perhaps they’re worried about keeping up with their peers or want to climb the career ladder. Whether the reason is for personal satisfaction or goal oriented, there are lots of ways to boost brain power. Your intelligence is strongly linked to DNA but that doesn’t mean you can’t work at it. If you want to improve your intelligence levels by giving your brain a boost, here’s how to do it. Get The Right Amount of Sleep So many people make the mistake of overworking themselves when they need to use their brains the most. For instance, when students have exams coming up, they study through the night instead of sleeping. This can have…
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Eric San Juan
January 9, 2024
Is your relationship going off the rails? If it is, then you might have already decided to just let it go. A lot of us will want to fight for the relationship and the person that we are with, hoping that you can save it and move forward. It’s not always going to be possible, but the fact that you are willing to do whatever it takes speaks volumes about how much you value the person that you have. Sometimes though you’re not sure where you can start with this, and that’s what we’re going to be looking at in this article. If you want to know more, keep reading. Link Image – CC0 License Communicate With Each Other No relationship is going to work…
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Eric San Juan
November 2, 2023
read part 1 – read part 6 Mortar shells. The chatter of gunfire. Pine branches whipped against my face, sugar sand kicking up behind me and bullets ripping through the foliage. The shouts came from behind, from left, from right. In this place of peace, there was only chaos. “Go, go, go!” And I ran, ran, ran. No, this wasn’t right. This wasn’t what this place was. I stopped running and the air stilled. I heard only the echo of gunfire now, from some far off time or place. Explosions like a whisper from yesterday. But there was no pursuit. No figures on a rise. No young soldiers with weapons of wood and imagination. There were only tires in the water that had been there…
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Eric San Juan
November 1, 2023
read part 1 – read part 5 A bottle of whiskey lay half-open on a counter somewhere, the counter in a void of gray mist. In the next room, a body swollen with gas, three days dead. Bruises kissed its waist. More bottles lay nearby. Further into the void, a hole in the Earth, endless, covered with rotting wood boards. One false step … A garbage bag filled with chemicals. Pine needles on fire. A kick in the night followed by tears. A groped breast in the back of an old car. A night in a basement filled with vomit. All of these things were true. He shook his head, willed the void away, willed the truth away, but the room and the stool and…
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Eric San Juan
October 31, 2023
read part 1 – read part 4 Air sucked back into the room. Sound returned. He could see; he could breath; he could speak. Where once sat the woman of skin and shadow was now a void, a cavern of flesh where the couch had been, its walls glistening with wetness. When he was two, his mother fell down the steps with him in her arms. Or maybe she threw him. The opening seemed to cast light and dark at once, the light easing his mind, the dark both drawing him in and repulsing him. He stepped forward. Forward again. Its walls quivered as he neared. He could hear the rush of blood within. When he was six, he was stung in the face by…
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