Short story I wrote a few weeks back. I may work it into something longer (feel free to add your ideas)- felt like a good day for sharing cause it's thanksgiving and sometimes a good story (or even a bad one) can take our mind off stark contrasts. Enjoy! This is a story about Cathy. … Continue reading This is a story about Cathy
Some time back I had put out a call for a co-author for the following wip I've been researching and writing for the past few years. It may be quite a bit more done than I realized and just in need of a hardy editor. I have frozen shoulder atm and it makes sitting at … Continue reading Something Like Genesis – An excerpt
I got out of bed to stare out the window. Fricken glorious sky over the fields. Early dawn. Twilight, really. I can’t sleep. When can I ever? Evie lies in bed. I don’t know how she can sleep through the thundering in my head, how it doesn’t wake her, how it can be so exclusively … Continue reading Silent Twilight – Flash Fiction
“What the fuck, Sheila, you can’t just leave things like this!” She turned and glared at me with those piercing eyes, cutting a hole through my soul, “I can. I am.” And she did. Just like that. The last conversation I would ever have with her. Three months later and I’m still waiting for the … Continue reading Break Time – Flash Fiction
They’ve forced me to become an American. An apple with enough sugar to kill ya. Drink the koolaid. Drink it or die before we tell ya to. Drink the koolaid, watch the programs and stay far far away from people. Go to work. Go to school. But you’re too weird. Stay home. Get on your … Continue reading AS IF II
Oh where is my consciousness, lost in a stream somewhere, a land before time. Float with me awhile, down that lazy, hazy river of thought trying to come to grips with its inability to deed. Writing is that strange act of sharing authorship of an idea with a reader. You read it just as if … Continue reading AS IF: Ode to the Gonz
The Prayers of the Righteous do not go unheard What does it take to be righteous? What would something like that entail? We all believe we are righteous and if we don’t believe that, then we tend to espouse an ideology where righteousness becomes meaningless or ineffectual. When we were stuck in Boulder, there was … Continue reading Monday Night Storytime
Bureaucracy, Boundaries and the Traumatized Individual I was gearing up to write something epic. Did some research and some thinking and as I sat down to write, my important other came over and started typing stuff. Levity. That should be his middle name. Why don’t I finish the stories I start? Why don’t I have … Continue reading Fairy Tales
Ah, the sacred comfort zone that’s never really comfortable. Freedom is comfortable, but what is freedom anyways? It’s many things to many people but underneath and around the bend and through the river of life, the heart of the matter is that freedom is trust. To trust. To be trusted. And all the things that … Continue reading On Feeling, Episode Two
One by one the walk away bug hit us And we did Walk away. I wish you would always know when you should pause when reading my writing I say a lot in the pauses That’s why it’s better to know me in person. But until then I live to write another day. I spent … Continue reading changing the world
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