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I dreamed that you were bleeding out in front of me. You couldn't speak, only look at me with a stutter on your lips. I gagged on my scream and fell to you. I touched your face. I couldn't touch your wounds. You shivered, and I shook, but time stood still. You died. My hair was sticky with your blood ( Read more... )

There are jumping spiders in my room ( Read more... )

Some of the story ( Read more... )

http://www.legacy.com/JournalInquirer/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=90293848

from today's Journal Inquirer, our newspaper. They did a nice job.

The rules: Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed ( Read more... )

I was kind of praying at the time. Not in a deliberate, somber, reflective fashion, but closer to the way that people spontaneously shriek "JESUS!" as they narrowly miss getting hit by a car. At some level, it's your autonomic nervous system and conciousness jointly crying to the Word in this pure moment where indifference doesn't exist. At some ( Read more... )

I just discovered on the weather website that the day will be 2 minutes 43 seconds longer tomorrow.

Even if I can't tell from the inside of the ark I'm building, or from under the storm clouds of doom covering the sky, should I venture up onto the deck to check, doesn't that knowledge somehow make it a little easier to get out of bed?

Today was March 31. That deserves an entry even if I haven't posted since November. Perhaps this will be the start of a new trend. At some level, I think I couldn't answer my last post until I figured out what might have been lost. But today, I think I know what was gone ( Read more... )

I woke up taut in a cold sweat and completely winded, then frenetically dove from the tangled, drenched covers. I opened my drawers and started pulling things out, throwing socks and shirts on the floor, on the tv...My mind was consumed with one single thought: DON'T BE GONE!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T!!!!!!!! Sobbing and panicked I ransacked the drawers ( Read more... )