Fiction, Poetry, Letters, & Other Creative Musings
I've decided to attempt NaNoWriMo again. I have attempted it five times. I had been saying four but I forgot that first failed attempt. I have been successful twice but not in a row. Hopefully since I was successful last year I can keep it going, finally. My reason for doing it is to get... Continue Reading →
In response to The Daily Post's writing prompt: "Mix Tape." So... I immediately got excited about today's daily post. I mean, if you have known me for ten minutes you know that I love music. Get to know me a little longer and you will find out that I love making mix tapes. Well, I... Continue Reading →
I woke up from a dream that I was both hoping not to finish and anxious to see what happened at the end. I dream in epic fashion. It is not uncommon for my dreams to go from romantic comedy to gangster movie to Marvel comic action movie to musical to WTF in a matter... Continue Reading →
I am a really big music fan. Wait… That is an understatement. Music is everything! (There that is a little better.) I have found that when my creativity is running on fumes that all I need to do is go straight to my music library for relief. Way too many of my story ideas come... Continue Reading →
you and the midget must go the greed you attract makes me ill it follows you and you follow me as I attempt to deliver parcels of hope and smiles after life’s storms the clouds part ways the sun peeks out and there I am and there you are weighing me down with your pipe... Continue Reading →
bright lights reflected in unnaturally still waters at the feet of skyscrapers with a Napolean complex I long for change trees older than some cities reaching to the heavens able to tell stories of long ago fileds of grass mowed only by animals who travel freely and want for nothing mountains hovering guarding the trees protecting... Continue Reading →
annoying little things tapping on my window sweet nectar for them from mom cereal for me from me then their existence the sound of their wings used to torment me and the way that I speak or hold on to words the hum where other kids expected silence and I’d cry hearing it neither from the... Continue Reading →
Let me remove life’s tangles condition you to handle all obstacles massage away your bitter brittleness Let me smooth away the imperfection I cannot see even out your complex complexion Let me erase the scars silence the angry voices allowing in only the reflection of your natural beauty
kisses sweet nothings igniting my soul cool paralysis, warm desire heaven
I do not rise I do not set I travel further than you see faster than you think I see it all hills and valleys mountains and glaciers in the clear and through the clouds I make my rounds illuminating the world going full circle to do it all again tomorrow
Inside the Shell 