At least the athlete
It was Sunday afternoon and from his bedroom Timmy could hear the human silence in the old house, the groan and creak of old floor boards, his parents walking paces around each other, careful to enter the kitchen only when the other was safely in the living room. He thought their aggressive but furtive avoidance […]
Love or Nothing
I knew there was a wealth of entertainment in these tennis moments. So here’s the beginning - the first round of fictional tennis. Thanks to Ron, who has given me permission to riff on his exquisite lines about love and tennis….
Lara Shepherd bounced the ball four times on the service line before drawing the racket […]
Hallelujah
Great Scott! Hallelujah! Sweet Jesus! Hot Diggity Dog! I’ve never been so happy to see a damn plug in my entire life. Just imagine me drifting around the house for the past five days lurking in dark hallways, listening at doors, waiting breathlessly for the moment that MBH leaves the computer to fix a […]
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 […]
