love song #1 love wafts in smoke-like & pungent it fills my scorched chest with the briars of hope pricking carmine droplets that fill my drifting eyes that hard throbbing heart pumping love from my sleeves stutters out a lament, shudders, is seized by a great...
Retreat - Devonfield
The ’80s, Baby — X at the Keystone
(So busy this month -- Â here is a brief flash) Â Her gin and tonics kept landing on the concrete dance floor at the Keystone, the hottest spot for Stanford undergrads in Palo Alto. The cigarette perched between her shocking, metallic pink lips competed with the...
The Dying Decade, and Beyond – BG. 8.16.23
Death behind closed doors, out of sight, lost to conversation, unacknowledged, all with its brutality, that’s the ‘80’s. To hell with Raygun & his holier than thou crowd, their ‘Just say’ Go away. No connection to reality in this Hollywood re-make, and never look...
Abandon – Amy’s August Post (second attempt)
Abandon Odette stood before Seb just as she had all those months ago. The same. Utterly different. This time, her back was straight, her gaze unflinching, her arms full of the things he’d thrust onto her: a baby boy, two little black cauldrons, and the promise of a...
Abandon – Amy’s August Piece
I, too, "steal" to write stories. Inspired by a story told to me a couple of weeks ago... Abandon Odette stood before Seb just as she had all those months ago. The same. Utterly different. This time, her back was straight, her gaze unflinching, her arms full of...
Melting
The thing about having a child is that you’re always sick. And after a while this perpetual sickness starts to bleed into your actual health, so what started out as daycare residuum (a clogged nose and cough that feel, even without squinting too much, like an...
Among Many Things
I didn’t want to go to the thing but he wanted me to go to the thing. He always wanted me to go to the thing and I never wanted to go. All year long, he thought about the thing and so did I. He thought about liking it and I thought about not liking it. But sometimes he thought about me not liking it and I thought about him liking it.
Holes and Worms
Minji had blisters all over her body. The pediatric industry in South Korea was on the verge of collapse. There was a shortage of pediatrics.
After-Hours Job Interview with Your One-Time Crush
You’re hoping he can be objective, overlook that zinfandel kiss you shared last year. You were tipsy and the cool night smelled of jasmine. He silked his jacket over your shoulders
Your Snowman
I wasn’t supposed to love her. She was an intrusion in my life. Uninvited. Unwelcomed.