Well, I finally did it. I broke the 1K follower mark. This mighty number has been a goal of mine since getting on the platform a little more than a year ago. Over the months, I’ve nurtured this figure like Daenerys Targaryen babied those three little dragons. Reading, writing, clapping…
Although I truly enjoy reading other people’s profiles here, I have procrastinated endlessly about writing my own. I wonder if it’s like trying to come up with a dating profile when you are literally interested in hanging out with anyone and everyone. Maybe not, but here goes nothing —
The…
What comes first is the silence —
The blessed quiet
of the whole world draped in white bunting
Sound smothered
Now you can finally hear yourself think
You’ve lost something
That much is clear
and it is high time to go hunting
To sink up to your knees in the…
It wasn’t easy growing up in Sparta. But maybe the Spartan kids didn’t have any pen pals in nearby Athens where life, at least for the boys, was spent philosophizing and cheering on their countrymen at the Olympics.
To get into the mind of a Spartan parent, you have to…
They really sell you a bill of goods with witness protection, you know?
You think it’s gonna be like a permanent staycation. A place by the beach. A window to the water. Some time to breathe the fresh air and get your head on straight.
I should have known. That…
The first purge is the most satisfying. Say your wife died. Her name was Jeannie, and she was a big shopper (QVC mostly). A lot of those packages just sat around the house, unopened.
Maybe the kids (let’s go with three) help you with a garage sale — and as…
The healer’s cottage was at the far end of town where the plains unrolled into distant hills and then onto the great mountains. When Zilla inquired about the healer at the market, no one looked at her strangely. A gregarious woman with a handful of turnips even pointed the way.
…
Am I going to die? asks the child. And you say — no. Like a reflex, a knee jerk of despair. The idea of it a swell that would finish you.
Do you promise? Is what comes next. The guarantee from absolute authority,
which right now is you — as…
If I’m channel surfing and stumble across a favorite movie, more likely than not, I’ll stick with it until I get to a particular scene. This could be because the bad guys finally get their comeuppance, or the hero escapes, or the girl fakes an incredible orgasm.
Sometimes the special…
Zilla got to take a human’s shape only when Mistress had something for her to do. The duties were nearly always unpleasant, lest why should she be summoned, but the joy of finding her corporeal herself — soft flesh over firm bone, nostrils to breathe in the fresh air, fingers…
