By Dr. John Reizer
There’s so much talk in the news about war and hate that I thought I would write an article on the opposite of those things: the thing we call love.
For something that has existed for as long as human beings have walked the realm, love remains one of the least understood experiences in our lives.
“I think I love you!”
Practically everyone knows what it feels like and recognizes the symptoms almost immediately when they “fall in love.” Yet no one can fully explain why it happens or why it affects some people more deeply than others.
Love is often described as an emotion, but that definition seems somewhat inadequate. Emotions usually come and go, but love tends to take over.
This phenomenon changes priorities, alters behavior, overrides logic, common sense, and even self-preservation. People who are otherwise careful, disciplined, and practical can suddenly find themselves making decisions that seem completely out of character.
Those who become compromised will go to extreme measures to spend a few hours with someone they barely knew a few days prior. Then they stay awake all night waiting for a text message.
Some folks take enormous risks for people they barely know and attempt to rearrange their entire lives for the possibility of a future with, for all intents and purposes, a stranger.
This phenomenon is akin to an infection!
From the perspective of others not infected, the actions of the infected ones can appear irrational. To the person experiencing the infection, however, what they are doing often feels perfectly reasonable.
That’s what makes the phenomenon so damn fascinating. Once it takes hold, it spreads through every area of a person’s life. Thoughts become preoccupied with things that do not make much sense, yet in the minds of the infected, the strangeness suddenly takes on enormous importance.
A person’s entire mood can rise or fall based on a single conversation. A smile or glance becomes significant, and silence can cause anxiety and concern.
The person suffering from this condition often knows exactly what’s happening and yet remains powerless to stop it.
Of course, science offers explanations for how hormones and neurotransmitters influence attraction, attachment, and bonding. The brain releases chemicals that create pleasure, anticipation, and emotional connection. While those explanations can help us understand the mechanics involved, they do not fully explain the experience.
Let’s be perfectly honest, chemical formulas can’t adequately explain why one person becomes important while millions of others remain unimportant.
No scientific equation explains why someone can occupy a person’s thoughts for years after they’ve left their lives.
The infection has inspired some of humanity’s greatest achievements and mistakes. Wars have been fought because of the infection, and amazing songs and books have been authored, too.
Businesses and lives have been built and destroyed because of love.
Entire futures have been changed because one person met another person at exactly the right or wrong moment in time.
Perhaps the strangest thing about love is that almost everyone eventually signs up for it again regardless of the havoc it might cause in their lives.
People experience heartbreak and swear they will never put themselves through it again, yet that’s exactly what they end up doing.
The truth is that love remains one of the few things that can not be fully understood from a distance. It has to be lived and experienced.
Love may not be an infection in the traditional sense, but it certainly comes with a plethora of symptoms. And, judging by human history, most of us are willing to catch it regardless of the consequences.
The Matrix is an amazing platform for biological avatars to experience many things that can only be accomplished within the parameters of a 3-D holographic simulation. Love seems to be one of those things.
Releasing July 4th, 2026
A man and a woman, complete strangers to one another, receive the same cryptic text message: Be at the Crossroads Diner at the intersection of highways 9 and 11. Come alone at 2:17 a.m. and don’t be late!
Drawn there by grief and curiosity, they arrive at a lonely roadside establishment where the coffee is hot, the lights are inviting, and the clock above the counter is frozen at 2:17.
It never, ever moves!
Seated across from each other in booth number 5, they wait for someone or something to show, but no one comes. Instead, memories begin to reveal themselves through the diner’s windows, revealing their part in a terrible tragedy 3 years earlier, a murder!
Every attempt to leave the diner ends the same way: a reset; in an instant, they are seated back in the booth again. The same song plays on the jukebox, the same half-empty sugar dispenser sits on the tabletop, and the same unchanging time of day refuses to move forward.
Trapped in a place that may not actually exist, they are forced to confront a terrifying possibility: they were both there that fateful morning and played an integral role in something neither of them chose to remember, and what they’ve told themselves for the past three years is a lie.
The diner will not release them until they learn the truth of what happened in those critical minutes, and how their presence that morning was tied to a murder that was never solved.
Is the diner real or a creation of two people’s tortured souls, a construct born from guilt and trauma, built by two fractured minds desperate to unbury the truthful past?
Time has stopped!
The truth has not!
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What if fiction reveals the truths modern society refuses to face?
Truth Engines is a bold collection of science fiction shorts that acknowledges the hidden realities currently affecting humanity. Blending imagination with clever storytelling, these writings explore a wide range of important subjects currently impacting all human beings.
Releasing September 1st, 2026
Science fiction has traditionally been a way for writers to discuss difficult ideas safely. It has allowed authors to examine dangerous possibilities before they become reality. Sometimes fiction entertains us, sometimes it warns us, and sometimes it says the necessary things that otherwise couldn’t be said.
These stories are not meant to preach or claim absolute answers. They are meant to encourage thought. They will hopefully inspire readers to ask questions about power, truth, freedom, artificial intelligence, corruption, media influence, medical ethics, surveillance, and the future direction of humanity itself.
Some readers may see these stories as pure fiction. Others may recognize pieces of the modern world hidden inside them. That choice belongs to you, the reader.
The goal of my writing is twofold: to entertain while also encouraging people to think more deeply about the systems shaping human life behind the scenes.
Whether these stories inspire agreement, debate, curiosity, or discomfort, I hope they stay with you long after the final page.
Sometimes fiction is not an escape from reality, but rather the only way to talk about it.
–John Reizer
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“Rachel Alig is terrific as Donna while Justin Ray as Clyde also manages to impress. Combining witty commentary with a constant threat to life, script writers Palo and Reizer develop a narrative that is funny and charming while ensuring that none of the thrill and danger is lost in the process.”
– INDIE WRAP MAGAZINE
“Drama, thrills, comedy and so much more: Directors Andrew Arguello and MJ Palo’s Target List has all the fixings of a great movie. Combining a fantastic cast with the witty writing of MJ Palo and John Reizer, whichever way you flip this film, it lands on its feet with feline agility.”
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