You Can't Outrat A Rat

Now all across the land, we know that you can't outrat a rat, see, but what some don't know is where they got their reputation. That's where 'ol Brer Fox comes in.

Long time past, no one was one smarter than 'old Brer Fox, and people told 'im so far and wide until his head was swollen like a melon in the sun. It was plain to ( Read more... )

Prelio awoke slowly, confused for a moment to see his own image staring back at him from the pool of water in front of him.  The hush and roll of the waves behind him whispered a gentle hymnal, calling him back home.  Sickening, rolling pain closed is eyes for a moment, and he lowered his cheek down to rest on the barnacle-covered rocks.  He lay ( Read more... )

One line of footprints in the sand: night along the coast.

It was there too, as it always was.  In the morning my footprints will be washed away, but tomorrow, and always, It would be there.

It came now, slipping through me like darkness through glass, a cloaked figure in the night.  The ache of It's presence began to fill me, infesting like the eggs ( Read more... )

"And would you wait, if war tore me away and drank the hot ( Read more... )

Shauna,

I was thinking of you today, and I thought I'd sit down and write to tell you how I've been doing.  I don't know if you get these letters anymore, or what you do with them.  I like to think that you throw them away without reading them-- it'd hurt too much to know you read them and still didn't write back.

I was in Virginia Beach last ( Read more... )