In Love
You have be in love with something to write. Even if you are only in love with writing, that will work. If you have a wife you love, and animals you love, that changes the quality of the writing, and I don’t…
Month: December 2018
Book Wyrms
They’d been storing it between the pages of an old book. They’d been hiring poets and prose writers back then – ones that they could plonk down in front of a hack-rig and have them write something convincing enough to capture a…
a life that dances
i like romance i need clarence everyone needs help getting their wings and other kinds of things not sure if i need a life that sings or a life that dances but i need a life that takes chances i need a…
late night plates
late night plates the waitress waits the conversations the coffee cups the half-baked realisations he sips, she sups greek and vegetarian a teenager, a septuagenarian a burger, a skillet you have an empty belly til you fill it
Pig
Chenry watched the pig saunter off into the bushes. He had chosen as his metaphorm, a Pig-Pen. They were not as common as Bloop-Hens, but they did farm them out in the Clue Hinterlands, where they formed Heards. You fed them on…
the bright after
the bright after is a music of laughter not a pinned butterfly or a camera shuttered lie the pure peal of an angel’s bell you feel the heart swell like the rise of a far reaching tide when you become the sun…
Unscripted
A beacon activates deep in the Unscripted Realms. He can’t find the words – they are jammed up in his throat, and it looks like silence, but being mute isn’t about quiet, so much as it is about trapped communication. He sees…
Do You Want Communicate?
That is the first question you need to ask when you sit down to write, and if you can’t answer it in the affirmative, then you aren’t going to get very far. Why? Because writing without communication as its backbone isn’t anything.…
the answers to listen to
the answers not to listen to are obvious the people listening to them are oblivious they have plugged their heads into their error and have severed their analysis from their vision with a precision that buckles the world punches a hole through…
Storming The Library
He bent over the book, cracked it open, broke its spine, and started to go to work on the meat of it. It wasn’t pretty, carving it up – crafting something entirely new from the flesh. Hinge words swung through the new…