Lieutenant Pumpkin has been missing for over a week now, and I have eaten all the cookie dough. I look for her every day, leave food out at night, put up flyers and talk to neighbors and call shelters and visit veterinarians and cry. I do a lot of moping. It's exhausting. I recognize myself falling …
My mission to devote one night a week to blogging AND ONLY BLOGGING! has so far been successful. I may need to separate it into two nights, though, now that I'm branching out into freelancing as well. Last week's blog night started with "I'm going to research hive mind and honey bee self-sacrifice for my …
Continue reading Mission: research and write stuff. Status: go.
My virtual being has been quiet for the past month as the flesh and blood version moved between three states, the intellectual matter started a new job, and the emotional remnants tried to hold a broken heart together. I’m trying to tease the opportunity out of the adversity and reunite those disjointed pieces into the …
Continue reading Tonight, the thunderstorm overtakes the moonshine
My neck aches without you. It ached with you too, but now each and every pang continues on a grander mission. They throb and echo into the misshapen heart that is mine and used to be ours. None of me lets go.
Tell me something, old friend: why are you fighting? You want the best for me, too, I know you do. You call me untalented at each deleted keystroke, but your fear overshadows that shallow indignation. Look at me. You have nothing to fear. The mirror will never reflect me without you. In tribute …
Continue reading Shakin’ up this week’s Yeah Write Gargleblaster
Yawning, shuffling, noticing the avocado on the floor. Stretching, recalling, confirming that I left it on the counter last night. I look at the cat. I look at the boyfriend. They look at each other. The cat saunters out. We all know. This week's 42-word flash-anything prompt is: Who dunnit? Pour yourself a tall glass …
Continue reading Who dunnit? Starting my week with the Yeah Write Gargleblaster
Waiting all day for night to fall Waiting in the night for our eyes to adjust Waiting behind our eyes for our vision to focus And wondering. The wait is over and the journey begins Beyond our eyes and into the skies. This is my take on Yeah Write's 42-word Gargleblaster prompt (a hat …
“No question, the socks are among the greatest things invented by humanity.” Honestly, I put fire and Oreos up there at the top of the cool-stuff-humans-have-made list, but I do agree with the heart of Ida Thomshinsky’s Google ebook Socks: socks are a wonderful thing that have been a long time in the making. Let …
The world learned the name of my hometown last year. Before one year ago today, when people asked me where I was from I could say "a small town in Connecticut, you've almost definitely never heard of it." Now we are another point on the map of mass shootings in America. Today I want to …
