September 16, 2019
Love You, Zyra, Part 3
VI. Now. At 3:30 in the afternoon, we ambled as a group, in single file, up a foot-path which skirted a mountainside. There were about 40 of us in…
September 15, 2019
Alone
“We live as we dream: alone...” --- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Lost....the realisation strikes deep... The endless trees are like bars of a…
September 13, 2019
Blackstar Blues
I bust in the door and she fills my belly with buckshot. What a thot, useless thot; I grab my wound and sink to my knees. The sides of my black…
September 12, 2019
Jarry Doors Exits the School, Part 1
I. The rain was ceaseless in the town of Calve Junction. “You could say the gangly one touched you,” said the one with the blonde hair and sunken…
September 11, 2019
The Sins We Remember Fondly, Part 4
X. Many of us who have spent time in 12-step or similar programs have come across the “martyr” personality. This person’s desire to clean up…
September 10, 2019
Odyssey
Mother rushed me across the country after Daddy tried to send me away to boarding school. Commit her or at least send her away for being a bad…
September 10, 2019
Blood, Gunpowder, and Plasma
The desert was rarely cool. But it was a cool night when Bobby Lucas found his life changed forever. Storms were brewing, layers upon layers of grey…
September 9, 2019
Love You, Zyra, Part 2
IV. Closer. We caught a bus that took us into the foothills of the Pamirs. By now, I’d gone quite native and had put on my all-purpose Islamic grey…
September 8, 2019
Nocturne of All Hallows’ Eve
"Don't look back, and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention." --- Peter S. Beagle Night had begun to cast…