Matthew Jackman – The Endless Whispers

Matthew Jackman

Professor Jackman understands weight. Not the physical “I’m-to-fat” kind of weight. But every year that goes by the burden of rejection and the weight of never living up to the highest standards pulls heavier and heavier on his shoulders. At a young age he knew he was destined to be one of the great intellectuals of his time. A philosopher to match Plato. A playwright to wrestle Shakespeare. A giant bound for the Nobel Prize. Instead he teaches dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His students think he’s a crank, a pie-in-the-sky dreamer with aspirations far above his station in life. He’s published short stories and poems in obscure intellectual journals. He’s written twelve novels though none have been optioned. His best friend is a bottle of Bunnahabhain and a steak dinner though often enough without the steak. As one of the great scribes once said, “It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.”

Writer’s Block 02

On: December 22, 2013

Sometimes I use music to help me focus my writing. Less so with creative writing, as I find it more distracting than not but often with the kind of writing where I work on autopilot (hello, Technical Writing). That said, when I find myself having a hard time “getting into…more

Like a Colossus

On: June 29, 2012

Matthew Jackman has been a having a bad year. It’s about to get worse. Much, much worse. Starring Tim Holt and Christopher D. Houldsworth. Directed by Michael Babbitt, this is part of The Endless Whispers Cycle.…more

Night of Rejection

On: April 2, 2012