Outside, frost covered the waking world, browns made silver, greens the same, and for a time there was only the gleam and not the under depression, drab, of winter’s touch. Light carried into room, glimmer and gleam the same and window-framed ray that reached in band between them. “What’s wrong?” Annie asked, […]
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WRITING SLUMP
I’m in a bit of a writing slump. It happens often when we struggle to read, dream, or live that which inspires; when one overworks old veins, or tries to force ideas and themes by power of will rather than tell a simpler story that wants shared. I’ve found, sometimes, the best stories/works we […]
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TRANSACTION OF SIGNS
“…the self becomes itself only through a transaction of signs with other selves…”—Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos _____ Is a self a self without another to show and share itself to? Maybe that’s a reason, in our isolation or fear of open, honest expression—a society of consumption, imitation, but little true creation; […]
Short Story
OPALESCENT
Between, there was always a romance to be lived, even in the muting—when the colors were mostly gone and leaves cast from their limbs; away from the wilds and returned to urban scape; where woods were a walk through open park, and solitude came not from place but by the set and stay of […]
Short Story
PERILOUS AFFAIR
Many sources of life-race, rush and high, by excess, he had burned into exhaust. Drink and night-highs: when there became more shadow than light, shame than levity, he gave them up without fight or desire to return. Lust divorced from love, physical from spirit: he acknowledged after-absence, confronted inner-void. Killing, war, power: in the […]