“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dec
3
“people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns… they become unalive because they are unable to pause undo themselves unkink unsee unlearn roll clear. listen to their untrue laughter, then walk away.”
Dec
8
A man in my shoes runs a light And all the papers lied tonight But falling over you Is the news of the day Angels fall like rain And love, love, love, love is all of heaven away Inside you the time moves (Drums beat time) And she don’t fade (In you and I) […]
Dec
7
(originally published 12/15/2018) Like everything involved in religion the truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is fiction. So I feel compelled to add to it. As you probably know, in the same casual way you know there was a shark involved in Jaws, when you die you end up in front of […]
Dec
6
Introduction to The Trembling Fist (published 2013) Son, we live in a world that has words, and those words have to be guarded by men with dictionaries. Who’s gonna do it? You? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You have the luxury of not knowing the connection between words like macabre […]
Dec
4
(originally posted 1/12/2019) Jane always believed that caveat emptor was something you learned at garage sales, an education of sorts, and not something that actually pertained to education. Somewhere between “you get what you pay for” and “beware of what you want for you shall surely get it” stood senior year of college. She […]
Dec
3
(originally posted 2/9/2022) They met in high school and from that moment on he knew she liked a certain type of man. A man he was quite capable of becoming. And therein lay his dilemma. He didn’t know if she was worth becoming that particular man. It started right after graduation. The man she […]
