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Tripped Up by Catfish - A Fable of Accidents 20 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
"You a food blogger?" The question came at me like a bolt of lightning. It stunned me like one, too. That is not the sort of question I ever expected to hear, even though at that moment I was standin...
New York Texas Toast 19 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Seamus couldn't fucking believe it. "This is what my life has come to?" he croaked. "Frozen Texas toast? From New York?" The last said with a lilting inflection of utter disbelief. What the hell did N...
Mangoes Before Heaven 16 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Simon gasped, ragged breath a countdown to what he was sure would soon be his last. The sickly vapors wafting from his gangrenous legs combined with the fetid reek of the riverbank in an unholy miasma...
Drift 15 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
July 14, 2013. 10:54 PM. We ripen in different fields yet there is no mistaking of the lineage. The wind blows on she and I together. We deflect with indignation that the universe would dare impose o...
Beseech the Stars 8 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Aislinge sat still as stone while the gale blew itself out around him. Waves pounded the dark basalt at the base of high cliff, liquid iron hammering out the fury of Manannán. The cold and the wet tro...
Medicine Man (Heal Thyself) 5 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
If the saying "You are what you eat" has any certitude to it, then I am a walking antidote. A bulwark of mental insulation, wearing a flak jacket made of things that seduce my gullet. Ladies and gentl...
Cloud Life 22 Jul 2013 | 09:23 am
"Sometimes the clouds don't even look real." She said it with a mix of wonder and disbelief, one that seems peculiar to children. The statement hung in the air while I considered my answer. The remar...
The Garden of Regret and Promise (Sunday Meditation #30) 21 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
The plane leaps skyward, metallic Pegasus galloping into the midnight blue. The mind's eye rolls movies of trees uprooted, ripped from the sod with the sound of torn silk. The earth gives ground grudg...
Diamantaire 16 Jul 2013 | 06:41 pm
Ten years gone. The magma has cooled somewhat, thick curls and billows hardening on the the slopes of my soul. Heat remains in spite of the multitude of solstices observed since the earth opened up an...
In the Name of The Father? (Sunday Meditation #29) 16 Jun 2013 | 09:01 am
I arrived home yesterday evening to be shocked by the sight at the end of my street. A ferocious thunderstorm felled an old tree in my neighbor's yard, two doors up the road. I say "in" the yard but i...
