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Of Intrinsic Value
It stood against time for a century, But then, got in progresses way. Before the first board razed, Hereford cattle shipped to market. Then – they came at noon — Bulldozers tearing down the ancient barn. Soon grassy field’s plowed under, Gone, the sight of a gloried past. Men of profit claimed it had…
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I can’t afford a vacation, so I’m simply gonna drink until I don’t know where I am.
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The difference between law and justice is simple: the family dog bites a human and gets euthanized, but a police dog does the same and gets rewarded.
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Shoe-box Ford
After days of walking, creating nighttime shelter out of my now-worn out plastic tarp, I was happy to see an old abandoned car in the raven to my right. The rain seemed to be never-ending, with lightning clawing across the sky and thunder booming both day and night. Once I realize that the windows were…
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Eye drops are technically ‘blinker fluid.’
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If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been distracted — I want a taco.
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The Overworked Mind
It’s the night-time that’s the worst. His mind refusing to take a rest as it works to develop stories worth telling. Even when he sleeps those few hours, his mind machinates, imagining, thinking what word should come next, how the story should flow and end. Then he wonders why he’s always so damned fatigued, mind and…
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Praeteritus Puer
Sadly a friend with whom I went to high school, lost her child to murder. My heartache left me thinking how there’s not a word for such a loss. After all, a wife becomes a widow, a husband a widower and children are known as orphans. But what of parents left behind? So I began…
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After eating two full boxes of Alpha-Bits cereal, I’m expecting a rather large, but consonant vowel movement.
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LinkedIn. Worst. Dating. App. Ever.