3 Takes

Ark Press Authors

May 19, 2026

1. Like Flying a Kite

2. Farm Poor

3. Persistence Hunters

1. Andrew M. Dare

Like Flying a Kite

I grew up on adventure stories. I relished reading Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis L’Amour. In my experience, every teenage boy yearns to learn about history, adventure, courage, challenge, duty, mastering new skills, what it means to be a man. One of my hobbies is flying kites. I think about reading adventure stories in much the same way. Reading is a skill, like kite-flying is a skill, both of which take patience and focus. If you use that skill, that patience, that focus, you can set your kite, or your imagination, soaring. The problem is boys are no longer encouraged to train their minds and imaginations with books. Instead, they’re kept distracted or sedated with electronics; they’re largely enslaved to electronics. Sports and electronics are all boys need—that seems to be the attitude. Sports are great. Electronics have their place. But boys—young men—need a lot more than that; they’re capable of a lot more than that.

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2. Larry Correia

Farm Poor

I was one of the poor kids who worked that carnival. I grew up poor. And not collect a government check poor, I mean farm poor, which has all the disadvantages of being poor but with the added benefit of constant backbreaking manual labor for little to no reward. I suppose I’m supposed to be bitter about that and be a good little communist or something, but instead I still got a bunch of throws at the dartboard. Go figure.

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3. Travis J. I. Corcoran

Persistence Hunters

HUMANS AND DOGS BOTH OCCUPY an unusual, and somewhat rare ecological niche—both are “pursuit predators,” and specifically “persistence hunters.” Unlike other carnivores, which depend on ambushes or brief high-speed sprints, persistence-hunting pursuit predators run their prey to ground. Packs of wolves or African wild dogs lope at a medium pace, for hours or—if need be—days, wearing down the hunted. Early humans did the same thing, and modern humans retain this capability—witness marathons.