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A Cup of Hot Fuck
There's a line in Carey Ross's article on the Bellingham Ladyfest that I think is interesting. She takes issue with the Ladyfesta assertion that "expertise is too often a male-defined concept," and states that she believes "some things are good, some things aren't, and the ability to decide and judge isn't necessarily a gendered thing ( Read more... ) -
Weekly Digest
Hey, what's this? Writing again? Tiny stories? About reprehensible people? Unearthly phone conversations? MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE.
Here's the week in review.
Monday: Wieroo
Cedar lives in a town full of murderers. Unsurprisingly, she is drinking too much again.
Tuesday: AhasuerusThe old man tries to starve himself to death, and gets flicked in ( Read more... ) -
One tiny impudent finger raised
It's one of those things where you get on the bus and you're listening to Orson Welles' version of the G. K. Chesterton story 'The Man Who Was Thursday' and you're carrying Anais Nin's A Spy in the House of Love and when you get downtown you make a mental note to buy a ticket to the Jacques Tati film festival and then you buy a black coffee and sit ( Read more... ) -
Housekeeping
So, I don't know if any of you are interested, but, uh, I'm doing the sketches again. You can find them here.
Also, uh, hi? -
To My Unborn Child
there's nothing you can do but isn't made of two things
Child, you were beautiful
Tow-headed and grey-eyed at birth
bright of eye and quick of hand
your head beautiful against her curving breast
so strong with life, so brave
and curled now like a stone inside my body
heavy in my unopened chest
heavy with the future, heavy with the past -
Faultlines
You move out to California. While working as a caddy, you meet an old man who takes a shine to your dark eyes, your sweet and sinful mouth. He pursues you, woos you, weds you. He’s rich and he’s sweet and you say yes thinking it’s love, but after you’re married you grow to loathe his touch, his insistent caresses, his palsied, liver-spotted hands ( Read more... ) -
The Great War
A broken appointment is a loss to everyone.~Planned Parenthood ( Read more... ) -
More Incredibly True Stories From The Bible!
After preaching before sold-out crowds at Nineveh, our boy Jonah goes stomping out of the city in a brown study, angry and bitter and bigoted. Jonah hates Assyrians, see, and would have liked nothing better than a little bit of that hellfire and sulfur to come a-tumblin' down upon their heads, but when God picks you up by the scruff of the neck and ( Read more... ) -
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In the hot dark outside my apartment I can hear the frogs. They croak almost-but-not-quite in time with the ticking of the kitchen clock.
I positively ooze summer. -
Rose Hill
She came up as though out of sleep when she was twenty, looked around at her life and started running. She ran like the Devil himself was at her heels (as maybe he was) and couldn’t bring herself to settle in any one place for too long. She liked Phoenix the best, though, and might have stayed there only the itch came back into her feet and off she ( Read more... )