July 2022 Writing

Dig deep into it. Unearth any burrowed caches and hibernated stashes of negativity. Autopsy the emotions, diversions and machinations that procrastinate your progress. Wringer wash your desires, extinguish fires, recover prepubescent and predawn innocence and...

Female. 4'11",  Jewish, 144 Lbs., 35 lbs recent loss, confirmed Protestant at age 13, Mikvah'ed at 34, asthmatic, troubled with hyperparathyroidism, ulta-vegan, works out @ fitness center 4x/week, clogged arteries, clogged household, ever striving to declutter,...

    Usain Bolt I’m holding onto false edges crimping and it’s not like you’ll ask Len can you tell me please because I never have the crisp answers or bills to ensure we’re humming and I keep worrying about Heaven and running out of boxed liquor never...

  I woke to the squeak of a plywood door opening, then heard my daughters’ voice, "What are you doing, Papa?" She stood on top of the blankets, holding her Raggedy Ann doll. "I'm getting some tools,” my husband said. He was removing the long metal blade from his...

[At the end, I have some lines crossed out. Previous readers have suggested I cut these lines, but I'm torn on the edit (leaning toward cutting them, but still torn). If nothing else, let me know what you think about those final lines and whether they should be...

How a Military Fortress Becomes a Seaside Villa He had a brooding melancholy that separated him from other suitors. As if being forced to call upon me, to knock on the door, gloves in hand, hat under elbow, as if his father´s Wall Street fortune were a burden and not...

Karst sits cross-legged, in touch with bare ground, his back against a tree, emotionally vacant as darkness descends early this late June day, the sun in rescindment, blinked out of existence, not due to set for hours, no weather approaches, no heat, no dust storm, no...

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