Craig Maciolek

  • The Laughing Genie

    The three types of liars. Our imagination is capable of great creativity and great destruction. Through the medium of our choices and behaviors, it is the source of all manifestation. Truly, a genie in a lamp. Similarly, if we are… Continue reading

    The Laughing Genie
  • A Descending Spiral

    Addicts and fanatics all begin with simple lies and misdirections against their friends and family to push further into their darkness. As they continue along the downward spiral, their manipulations and deceits become more intricate, desperate, and fragile. Eventually, they must… Continue reading

    A Descending Spiral
  • Crime Storylines

    For the fiction writers. In the past I had the idea for a crime thriller storyline, where hackers and con-artists steal a guy’s identity and use it to double cross drug dealers as a cover for hacking his accounts and… Continue reading

  • Building An American Culture

    Applying context to one cornerstone of our society. ** I took some notes that have been clogging up my notebook for far too long and put them into Google Gemini, asking it to write an essay in the style of… Continue reading

  • A Modern Dreyfus

    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” by Sir Walter Scott, from his poem Marmion. Imagine a person who was set up to appear guilty. A patsy. Not set up to appear entirely guilty,… Continue reading

    A Modern Dreyfus
  • A Fractal Culture of Crime

    Just as teams of swindlers and thieves will harass and badger the elderly in order to confuse them, making them doubt their own senses. So to, will corporations and clandestine agencies conspire to keep an entire population off balance and… Continue reading

    A Fractal Culture of Crime