Today in Poetry, II
Silence
Breasts bared in a cool dark room,
Nipples stand and swell in the glow of iniquity,
This is how he’ll remember it-
Just an outline, a vague light creeping
From beneath silken drapes, closed for privacy.
Tilted hips on a soft white bed.
The fragile trill of her laughter beneath the palm of his hand
Resting in her stomach’s soft hollow.
Where he […]
Gardenias - the NC 17 version
I’ve been told I need to sort of elaborate on the sexual climax at the center of my story Gardenias; that I abandon the reader to their imagination when I should show them the very thing that occurs. So it has been revised with a little help. See the original bit here and come […]
Flags of Compatibility, Book Selection as Rosarch Test
My Better Half directed me to the New York Times opinion piece It’s Not You, It’s Your Books this weekend. I laughed, I cried, I saw my younger self in the dating female who is just so damn glad to have found a guy who reads at all that she’s initially willing to overlook the […]
Gardenia Excerpt
She talks to herself in the bathroom mirror. Her lips damp with rum, her cheeks glowing with drink. He is only sharing the truth with someone, anyone. There is no harm in this. She manipulates her shirt back into the waistline of her jeans, she smoothes her hair and purses her lips. She stares […]
Gardenias, Revised
So I’ve finally completed the short story I’ve had open for a long time. The writing I’ve done recently makes sense within its context, completes it somehow…
She is just about to shower when Paul begins to rattle the knob and pound at the door. He knows how she hates to be disturbed while mired […]
Anatomy of an Affair (excerpt)
She likes to start the day by shaking each teacher’s hand before relinquishing control of her only children. She feels the morning meet and greet is less an attempt to curry favor than an opportunity to give each instructor a look in the eye, to remind them of their precious charge, that they and they […]
Word Wizards
Today I meme. It’s a literature-meme, so I’m excited…
Mizmell has tagged me and I am supposed to grab the book nearest to my left elbow and open to page 123. I am to find the fifth sentence on the page and copy the next three sentences after the fifth here in this blog. And while […]
While I’m Away
I knew there would be some good that comes of this blogging thing. And low and behold I was able to fashion a short story using snippets of my writing from the Madmarriage space. When I return from vacation I will have to FedEx this story and the first few chapters of Habeas Corpus to […]
Without Him
She used to have sexual dreams of carnal lust and physical satisfactions but now she just dreams of being held. He is taller than her, the man who comes to her in sleep. Her face is always pressed to his chest while he wraps his arms around her. He kisses the top of her head […]
Habeas Corpus, Installment 8
It took the papers a full day to get the story. Lacy was found in the middle of Rte. 100 some time just before 3 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The Green Mountain Ledger led with the story on Wednesday. By that time, Lacy had died of her wounds at Rutland Regional Hospital. […]
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