It was the tenth straight day I’d come to the bookstore. I was on my third unpaid-for book. I took a seat in my usual spot. She was there again. She faced the bookshelf. She had her elbows propped on the second shelf, holding her book open. Her right calf was over her left shin. [...]
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Tagged Humor, Proclivities
I’m on light rail yesterday morning when it occurs to me that it’s been awhile since I’ve played the “How did I get here?” game. It goes something like this: The next time you’ve got a free minute or two stop everything you’re doing and look around you. Now describe all the things that must [...]
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Tagged Creative Writing, Nonfiction
“Look up.” Two hands lay palms-down on a brown briefcase. Scars. From cleats and dirt, knives at the bottom of soapy kitchen sinks, mother’s maroon-painted fingernails. Memories. The only way of knowing one’s actually existed. If you don’t remember anything you don’t know you’re there. Time. The flowing of time. The true nature of time [...]
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In Search of a Meaningful Moment
Two zebra-striped Angelfish bobbed upside-down on the water’s surface. Their exposed silver bellies reflected the light of the florescent white and blue bulbs that hung under the fish tank’s canopy. He walked over to the tank, pulled the lid open and sighed. There were no more fish.
Great, he thought to himself as he dipped the net into water, now I won’t be able to sleep tonight either.
Lately, he’d dreamt of silhouetted, humanoid figures that rode oil-spill-black horses and chased him endlessly through impossible labyrinths, until he awoke, gasping and covered in nightsweats, to an empty bed and silent cell phone. It had been forty years since he’d had nightmares as vivid as these.
They were, however, the very last thing he needed at the moment.
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Tagged Creative Writing, Fiction
New piece of mine! It’s the first play I’ve ever written and I’m actually happy with the results. I tried to paste this piece into the page but it was going to take too much work on my part to format it in HTML. So here it is in PDF format. It does contain strong [...]
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