Rand Eastwood is an author, blogger, artist & craftsman living in Las Vegas, NV. Certified in both nutrition & ancestral health, he is a healthy nutrition & lifestyle advocate. Under Eastwood Innovations, LLC he operates this author website, OÚSIA Magazine, Woodlands Press, Lifeology Store, Compass Bookstore, EVOLVE on Substack, Eastwood Poolworx (under development), and Eastwood Studios (under development). His dark fiction collection Rolling The Bones, epic novel PRIMEVAL, and other books are available from Amazon and Compass Bookstore, and much of his short fiction is available to read/download here under My Books & Fiction. For updates, subscribe to this blog and/or follow his Amazon author page.

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Contemplation: Everything Happens for a Reason

"Everything happens for a reason" doesn't imply divine intervention, karma, or some kind of cosmic justice—but simply cause & effect...

Hell or High Water: A Short Story

Hell Or High Water by Rand Eastwood: a knight on a steel horse meets a sad small-town Cinderella with big...

A Bearable Darkness of Being: A Short Story

Do we control our shadows, or do our shadows control us? And what if our shadows did a better job...

Today’s Cognition: January 23, 2026

Daily Words of Wisdom

Request Denied: A Short Story

One night while home alone and quietly enjoying a drink and a cigar out on his rear balcony, a wealthy,...

Examination Day | A Short Story by Henry Slesar

Examination Day by Henry Slesar is a 1958 short story about a 12-year-old boy who takes a mandatory government intelligence...

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

The War Prayer was written by Mark Twain in 1905, but was unpublished until after his death for fear of...

Einstein on Peace: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto

On July 9, 1955, philosopher Bertrand Russell and physicist Albert Einstein, along with 9 other prominent scientists, issued a statement...