Remember Me Thursday
Green note: surprise, surprise, yes, well I’ve been at the big top watching death dance round life below a troupe of lesser dark entities descending on ropes of fire, all […]
Category Archives: quest for light
The Salvation Skits: Happy Anniversary Val and May
This blog’s been quiet for so long I figured it’d be just another day like the other days. But ever since waking this morning I’ve been nagged by Val and […]
The Barstool Vignettes
NOTE: There’s some things get figured out on barstools that can’t get figured out elsewhere. These are some of those things, what follows. Rachele, Ruthey, and LeeAnn of The Miracle […]
Oneword: leash
Drawing © Ivan Kuleko, writer . Note: The best thing about this silly oneword is finding Ivan Kuleko’s drawings while I was looking for an image to bring meaning to the silliness. […]
The Salvation Skits
Photo “Come, baby, reach me” © Sarah Bloom Well, this is just a gas, seeing “The Salvation Skits” up over at the hot, new literary journal “disenthralled.” I spewed out […]
The delicious hours
“the melancholy twilight” by kate elizabeth I was blank, like a fenced-off portion of an untouched field of snow. Only my face could be seen amidst my body […]
Last tracks
What to do with the dead things watching all around like shepherds abiding in the field? They watch from inside the walls, from inside the car and living room sound […]
The last mile
This leaf caught my eye on my cool-down mile this morning. My eyes are trained to look for hearts in leaves, for lady bugs and dragonflies and rainbows and signs of all kinds, […]
The Jules Letters: Oranges and reds
NOTE: After reading Stephen Levine’s book, “A Year to Live,” and discovering the concept of reconciliatory letters, Jules began the process of sending letters like mad—both physically and via her […]
Where the sun shines
Photo – Javier’s Cantena © Guerin Design Jenna got all dolled up for her dinner date. Little black cocktail dress with a matching bolero jacket, sheer black hose, black heels. […]
Clyde River Hardware
The two farmers went down like the river goes down, past fields and more fields of stunted crops and on into town to one of the last old time […]
How to crack writer’s block
Photo Coal Train Graff © thosalumpagus Click play for some coaltrain while you read, Blue Train Coltrane, that is… First you whine and piss and moan about your sorry condition to everyone within […]
Operation Bandwagon
Here’s a goofy character study amidst three settings because I was incapable of any great thing this week. And because the props here are a guitarist, an artist, and a […]
The sunshine vignettes
NOTE: For last week’s SS prompt, “Disconnected,” I disconnected, not of my own choosing, but because the sun blasted and the steamroller rolled. And all that blasting and rolling inspired […]
