Thursday, February 25, 2010
Let’s pretend that there is a small Japanese restaurant that you have been going to for years. It’s nice, quiet, and they know your name. The food is delicious and a fair price and they even make special orders for you. Now you have been going for years, and there is something that you never [...]
I’m wondering what it must have been like, the first time I tried to kill me. I can’t imagine the frame of mind,
Even now, I’m replaying it in my head, the stark white face, the mirror image overexposed in such a way that it was almost translucent.
All I know is that one minute, I’m turning [...]
Monday, December 15, 2008
She was late, as was her custom
My watch beeped once, marking the twenty minute interval, as was its custom.
I looked up at the sky as the watch reset itself for another twenty minutes. It was a clear day, so there weren’t any clouds to watch. The bench was warm, under the sunlight, and I felt [...]
“Hello,” I say, as my hand extends to yours. I’ve read your nametag, although I recognize you all the same. Your hair has changed, and you wear your glasses now, but otherwise you’re still the same woman I fell in love with over a decade ago.
I guess that’s the allure and the danger of ten [...]
There’s a time when you realize you haven’t done anything for a while. You haven’t written, you haven’t felt like you’ve been experiencing life, you feel like you can’t start up again.
I had started this year with good intentions. Get new media options up. Video. Audio. And for the first [...]
When I found the place again, it was through an advanced google search, the one where you have to get it to look for a specific phrase while at the same time eliminating results with a different specific phrase.
Even then I only found the place after eight pages of results.
It takes me a few more [...]