Donah's Ink

Hello, my name is Donah and I am a storyteller, a writer, and inventor, and musician. Some of the stories are true or based loosely on something true, some are rants, mostly it’s just crap I make up and post now and then when I feel like it. I hope you enjoy reading it. I welcome and appreciate feedback of all kinds, especially the kind kind. 

  • A Terpsichorean Dream at Edge of The Universe

    Everyone knows there are four dimensions, three dimensions of space plus time. But according to String Theory there are ten dimensions. It’s hard to imagine, until you dream about it. I visited one of those other dimensions in a dream while taking a nap on my deck one warm sunny afternoon. What if somewhere, in… Read more

  • A Wine Glass Broke

    The other night, I had some friends over for dinner and a wine glass broke. It’s happened at least a hundred times, or so it seems. One of my friends asked me why I always buy such expensive and fragile wine glasses like that, they are so thin and delicate. I gave her the perfunctory… Read more

  • The Legend of the Bloodless Battle at Transcgia

    The cave: A team of archaeologists are exploring a remote island that has never been inhabited as far as we know. They are interested in this island because new satellite sensors have detected some strange radiation signatures from a cave on the island. Because of this, the team must wear special protective suits and respirators.… Read more

  • That Time We Almost Died!

    My best friend Jenny and I met in grad school. After we graduated, we did the requisite “doing Europe” trip together and later we both got good in tech. She bought a house at the end of a cul-de-sac in kind of a boring neighborhood; OK it was Kirkland. But it was close to our… Read more

  • Carnal Crossroads

    I am at the proverbial crossroads; I’m faced with a choice that will determine the fate of my soul. A Faustian bargain of bizarre proportions. How do I explain it. I guess I start at the beginning. I had just met this girl named Kayla who is drop-dead gorgeous, at a party some friends had… Read more

  • Love and the Elevator

    My Cousin Danny was my favorite cousin, actually, he was my favorite family member, he was like the brother I never had. Maybe it was because we were the same age and went to the same school, even went to the same college. I had two sisters, one 4 years older and one 8 years… Read more

  • My Best Woman

    I will never forget the summer of 1980, that was my summer of love. I had just finished my junior year of college and just turned 21. I was studying Electrical Engineering, and I hadn’t just done well, I had wowed my Electronics professors, I loved electronics so much that whenever I had access to… Read more

  • Sexual Healing

    I’ll never forget this time my little sister Tracy invited me to one of her parties, it was a younger crowd and my friend Kat, and I mingled for a while then and I saw Tracy in the kitchen and thought I could have her to myself for a few minutes. I went and gave… Read more

  • Six Months to Love

    Prologue: I work for a tech company that provides a free gym membership, so there is a lot of overlap between those two spaces and this story is about a woman who I know her from both of those places. I had seen her around and talked with her occasionally, but I wouldn’t say we… Read more

  • The Idiot Corps and the Hapless Hemmingway

    I don’t know why I joined the “corps”. No, actually I do know, my dad was in it, my brother joined, and my mom thought I should. I’m such an idiot. The “corps” that’s what everyone in my family called it, but to the rest of you, it’s the CIA. Yeah, that “corps”, they pronounced… Read more

  • Cousin Eddie and the Shannon Limit

    My cousin Eddie is not really a cousin, I guess he is what you call a shirt tail cousin, I cant remember the relationship, it’s something like my mom’s cousin’s brother in law twice removed or some crazy thing. Who cares. Eddie was a lazy talker. There was nothing wrong with him, he didn’t have… Read more

  • Island Vibrations

    Inter-realm Relationships I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “Island Vibes”, the notion that on an island everyone is more laid back and relaxed. About few years ago, I purchased my forever dream home, you know, the one you’ve dreamed of retiring in and living there until, well, you can’t anymore. It was supposed to be… Read more

  • Birds Fly South

    How a man stole a piece of the internet and got away with it. I’ll never forget that time I was on vacation in Jamaica, my girlfriend and I were both so excited. We had won a sweepstakes that neither of us could remember entering. At first, we thought it was a scam for some… Read more

  • Seeds of Possession

    I am standing over her as she sleeps, her angelic face pointed in the opposite direction, laying there, helpless, she is unaware. It’s dark, I’m standing next to her bed, I have the tool I had studied carefully, clandestinely online how to fabricate it. With one quick blow to her temple, she would be gone.… Read more

  • My Nomad

    Much has been written about us; Spirit Nomads, the Möbius, the Inter-persons, Mind Travelers, there are many words and terms for us, those capable of consciousness transmigration. That is, the ability to transfer your consciousness from one body to another.  Most of what has been written is incorrect, exaggerated, or mythologized. The process is difficult… Read more

  • Joshua Tree Technology

    This is a story about a gentleman who I have known for a long time. I work in the technology field and many of my friends do as well. I know his wife well and she also works in the field. He is a brilliant scientist and engineer. The story he told me, although somewhat… Read more

  • Lost and Found

    This is a story about one of my most amazing friends. I hope you enjoy it as much as I love knowing this incredible person. Here he is telling his story. People say, “so and so lost their mind” or “I think I lost my mind”. It’s a funny expression, of course you did not… Read more

  • Imaginary Numbers

    Discovery My name is Gina Thompson, and I just received my PhD from Stanford, my thesis; “The Reality of Imaginary numbers In Quantum Dynamics”.  Ugh, As I read my synopsis now, it seems so insipid. It’s reprinted on the bottom of the letter from the Institute for Advanced Research, people call it the “Discovery House”,… Read more

  • Paul Nine Lives

    My name is Paul James Nine and… I am alive. I am not the first human clone, but I am the first human to successfully transfer my consciousness to a clone of myself. Of course, now, my name is not legally Paul James Nine, legally I am his, my son, Paul James Nine Jr. From… Read more

  • The Serpent of Damocles

    A while back, some friends and I were hanging out at my place and I admit, we might have been toking out a bit. And we started to talk, and someone said, “What would you do, if you could do anything, like say you were a billionaire and could do anything, what would that be.”… Read more

  • A Love Letter to All My Ex’s

    Have you ever had a frouple? You know, friends that are a couple. Two people you’re friends with, you’ve always known them as a couple, they’re your friends as a couple. For example, everyone says “Sarah and Tim” but then then break up and now it’s Sarah, Tim.  I fell in friend with the “and” not… Read more

  • The Sci-Hy Channel

    This is that time of year when you veg out on the couch with your BFF and stream a lot of crummy movies and eat pop-corn. Me and my BFF Kelley were doing that and here is what popped up… It was a nice day out, so I took a break from my job at AlterGenTech… Read more

  • The Great Coo-Coo-Con

    To fully appreciate this flash piece, I think it needs a bit of set up. I attended the AWP (Association of Writers and Writer Programs) convention in Seattle a few months back. The part I most enjoyed, if I must be honest, was sitting at this large round table in the food court, pretending to… Read more

  • A Toast To Inhumanity

    There has been a lot of ink spilled lately about how you are supposed to be afraid of AI. Ha! That’s funny. OK, let’s do a quick little review. Who murdered 125 million people in the middle of the twentieth century? Oh yeah, remember that little ditty? World War II. Did AI do that? No,… Read more

  • The Supreme Acronym

    I work in the tech sector where the use of acronyms is rampant of course. I recall on more than one occasion where someone messaged me on the side to point out that someone on some conference call just uttered an entire sentence containing nothing but acronyms, perhaps a pronoun tossed in here or there.… Read more

  • Sapio-Sutra

    As is our custom on special occasions, my girlfriend and I toke out around the magic fire pit at the beach cabin where we first consummated our neuro-cognitive conjugality. The glow of the fire lights the dark, moonless night, as the Milky Way splashes across the sky like a string of white LED’s hung from… Read more

  • 78s

    Music 201, it was supposed to be an easy A, but it was killing me. The class had two parts, music theory and music appreciation. The theory was easy for me, I am good at the theoretical, but the appreciation part, that was tough for me. The class was taught by taught by a distinguished… Read more