So I’m not going to be here! Where I will be is the summer territory of no Internet connection, which logically means no blog posts. Unless, of course, I manage to hack into the neighbor’s WiFi (highly unlikely since I fail at what the young people refer to as being a hackz0r). K has a [...]
The problem is thus: there are no words. How many times have I been left warbling, over-thinking, fingers fluttering awkwardly, panicking in a slipshoddy kind of way, chasing after that one word, dammit? Belying several millennia of enhanced evolution with my verbal inability? Attempting to coerce my disjointed brain into cooperation? The blackout lull left between me [...]
She is an entry in a thesaurus. Sharp, cruel, altruistic in wholly different ways – a shiftshaper, viscous, bound together with glue and papier mâche. Made of spaghetti strands, calloused feet and outfitted with an elephant’s sneeze. Not particularly dependable, not with that fish brain of hers. Communicates with a sunsoaked voice that is only [...]
I am seven, eight maybe. I’m taking advantage of the fact that my father is upstairs to come closer than the recommended six feet towards the television. If my mother is with me, she does not comment. She will be tucking the sofa cover in at the edges, reprimanding me for not leaving my mug [...]