Brand "X" , and ACME, poems and stories. Surreal, sappy, funny, horrific, and human.
Are you going on holidays? Buy our pills, or you could get traveler’s diarrhea. (a woman in a white bathing suit runs toward a public bathroom, which is lined up … Continue Reading How much is that Worry in the window?
After her death, We cleared out Mother’s house. Among the found things were A stained brown envelope with a marriage license from 1932 A jewelry chest full of baubles we … Continue Reading Found things
Originally posted on Isabelle´s thoughts:
I saw her again, the old lady in her seventies, who was sitting in the corner of a sofa outside the library. She was…
Originally posted on Go Dog Go Café:
Steve Fuller has been encouraging the Baristas to develop monthly themes for the Go Dog Go Cafe’s Baristas and guest writers to use…
I used to lie awake at night even with the pills praying for a goodly sleep to cure me of my ills but then, the greenies vaporized and many nights … Continue Reading Reversal of fortune
Originally posted on By Hook Or By Book:
Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Beth Gwinn/Getty Images. 2001 I don’t know how many of you have heard, but literary…
Originally posted on TINA FRISCO:
Living with a chronic illness is a challenge at best. If the illness is devastating but not recognized by the medical establishment, convincing ourselves life…
Well, I have completed weeks of total withdrawal from a five year addiction to prescription medication. The grip was that strong that it’s been an ongoing struggle, but will get … Continue Reading Little Green Wings (Reprise 3)
I never knew my Grandpa. We have only a faded daguerreotype. But we kids had found out what we weren’t supposed to Through fortuitous eavesdropping. He had just gone into … Continue Reading Ancestral
Some very helpful actions taken by Eve.
Originally posted on Blood Into Ink:
Jesus isn’t waiting for me anywhere. I nailed him to a tree. A long time ago. And hell fires are extinct to me now.…
Such power and artistry here.
Have you ever felt That you can never go home again Or that you have never ever really been home In all your life? Perhaps some other world , Some … Continue Reading Degrees of home
the one that has me treat-trained sits in its worn out spot on the floor every day, same time it has now developed a professional smirk a badge of accomplishment … Continue Reading Yet more cat trouble
when we are in joy when it’s as if we purr with a good book and hot coffee when our longed for break comes the time subjectively speeds in moments … Continue Reading Marking time
It’s two in the morning as I write this. Wide awake. After five years of progressive addiction to sleeping drugs, I’ve “completed ” a 60 day withdrawal program, taking the … Continue Reading Little Green Wings. (Second reprise)
