Mind Sprocket

We tell stories.

Mind Sprocket gives voice to simple and honest perspectives. We publish thoughts and experiences on our world. We tell stories.

Once upon a time, three adventurers set out on a journey over many foreign lands to discover a lost treasure. And they came back with something exclusively for you...

Accounts & Glimpses

Herein may you find honesty, candor, and attitude; the judgment of remembrance, the pain of life, the force of death, and our gruesome reality.

This is My Heaven

by Andrea MacEachern on June 24, 2008

I know what heaven looks like in all four seasons. I know what it looks like in the summer. I know what heaven looks like in the fall. This is my heaven.

Drink, Drink Up, My Friends

by Liam Davenport on April 2, 2008

A tortured soul’s free-flowing drift through a drunken night in London.

Her Eyes Do Not Break

by Jacqueline Johnson on January 14, 2008

She doesn’t smile much, that woman. Eyes averted, she is the lone bird left to perch on an iron-wrought fence on a foggy, winter morning.

A Childhood Deforested

by Meghan MacNamara on December 3, 2007

The aliveness and comfort of growing up has become the past, leaving a landscape of the splinters of childhood.

An Incident in Hohhot

by Robert H. Abel on October 9, 2007

Everything – every banister, every public bench, every bus and even the flags and Buddhas in the monasteries – has a layer of grime upon it. I had thought Beijing was a dirty place. But for me Hohhot set a new standard. Even frozen, the river that wanders through its heart seemed untouchable to me.

In a Home Full of Books

by Anna Luther on September 4, 2007

Books have a presence in our lives. Sitting quietly on a bookshelf, they become more than a collection. Books are a reflection of who we are.

Living with the Lie: How to Really Enjoy the Romance Genre

by Lindsey Anderson on August 7, 2007

Put in the movie, snuggle in with a giant pillow, a bowl of ice cream, and a gleeful feeling inside. There’s more than one way to do romance.

Girl in the Rain

by Anna Luther on July 3, 2007

Curious and unexpected sweetness swims in drops from the sky.

Mirrors

by Jacqueline Johnson on May 8, 2007

An injured spirit sojourns through a ritual of denial, grasping for something else.

Why I’ll Never Stop Learning

by Anna Luther on April 3, 2007

Most of us leap for joy at the end of formal education because, well, it’s the end of formal education. Anna gives you a new reason to add a little more leap to your joy.