Can you believe the latest piece by Wadworth? I can’t believe the magazine would publish such rubbish. The man paused at his self-professed delightful rhyme as he spread some marjoram on a piece of perfectly toasted bread. Give me documentaries any old day- the real world is so much better than the mental playthings in [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 25, 2009
Truth Be Told
Why do we come here every six months? she said, staring out the car window at the dilapidated tin building. Every time we visit there’s less and less people selling weirder and weirder things.
I think it’s neat he said, one day this place will be gone and we’ll be able to tell our kids about [...]
June 24, 2009
The Weeds
Nothing held more magic for me growing up than the woods near my house. In the era of 4 channel television- my parents sprung for the twenty-odd channels cable offered at the time somewhat late in my development- talk shows and soap operas could not compete with the great outdoors, and I spent the majority [...]
June 24, 2009
We Are Not The Flame, But The Tinder.
Words are clunky things, and stringing them together in a seamless stretch is far more difficult than one can imagine. Our thoughts are free; unregulated in time and space and thus they need no form or fashion to make absolute sense within our minds. But to pluck them from the mental ether and pin them [...]
June 2, 2009
Short Story Contest #1
I have submitted three short stories to the Indiana Review’s 1/2 K Fiction Contest. (Each story had to be less than 500 words.) I think it will be awhile before I find out the results.
I hope to have additional short stories up soon.
