Aaron Buchanan

Aaron Buchanan is a writer who lets teaching philosophy and Latin in Tampa pay his bills. He is a Michigan native—a mystical, incongruous land which features prominently in his work. Aaron is also the only one he knows who has a four-feet-square painting of David Bowie in his living room and loves that his kids will grow up thinking that that is completely normal. His writing was most recently featured in New Reader Magazine and X-R-A-Y Lit Magazine.

Simulation Theory

“There is no permanent self,” he’d whispered louder than he’d intended. It was only in that moment he finally became aware of himself, what he was doing, and that he never meant to say anything out loud at all.