Random posts and exercise products from a pursuit of the writing life.
Soon shall come the day when every light goes out, when golden leaves quit falling, and lark and jay shall fail to sing. The water will not break against the rocks, the sun will finally surrender, and the moon will hide from sight. Alto and soprano will all be silenced, every lip will be...
Read more →When the sun started to fall beneath the western clouds, dropping into the sea, he remembered a time when they were caught in that storm, with a mile left of the rising and descending trail they ambled down. The cold wind pushed them to and fro, and though the path was usually a scenic...
Read more →“Knock knock?” “Dog biscuits!” “Where?!” “What?” “Dog biscuits!” “Where?!” “What?” “Dog biscuits!” “Where?!” “What?” “Where? Where?!” “Huh?” “What?” * Yawn * “Huh?” (Zzzzzzz.) * Yawn * (Zzzzzzz.) — Photo Credit: Greg Ferreri, “Lilly and Blue”, 2013.
Read more →once, when he was critically young, he saw something so stunningly sordid that it burned its way into his heart and killed a part of it, and of the rest of it that fought to beat and to bleed, within that it laid its eggs so that they would hatch and it could burrow...
Read more →The hardest part at the moment was the fact that everywhere he went in his home, she was there. Whatever loveliness that had taken place, the sweetest moments of joy and pleasure, the first moments of discovery and connection, the last moments of passion and pleasure before the axe fell and she catapulted him...
Read more →I don’t know how long it has been since I have posted something here I’ve written. I suppose I could look it up, but then again, we’ll all soon know when this is posted and it takes its place on the index page. All I know is that it’s been a while, and that...
Read more →So, I decided that for my New Years resolution, I would try to write more. I would try to write regularly. I would try to write for an hour, 5 days of the week. It started off pretty well, for two days. Then I missed one. And then I wrote one. And then I...
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