It was getting to be the time of year that the gnats came out in clouds and drove everyone inside. Where the gnats came from was a mystery, but since most things on this planet were a mystery, nobody much cared about this one. Except Marla. She wanted to know. She was tired of playing [...]

Today’s Words: Boise tusk Spiderman jovial mishmash tabernacle hypotenuse Nobody seems to like Boise or Spiderman as topics. Well, I don’t have a halcyon story about the beginning of my writing career, but I’ll relate some events of that era nonetheless before launching into my own story. In first grade, I wrote a story about [...]

Today’s Words: Boise tusk Spiderman jovial mishmash tabernacle hypotenuse So I was in 6th grade, and my teacher for the year was Miss Conaway. She was 29 or 30. Hot. Long brownish red hair. Dressed smart but not all dolled up. She was “real” as Juli & I would have called her. I was in [...]

Today’s Words: fierce tussah tempt slumber tabacosis tableau influence I must confess that I have an unfair advantage in that I am quite familiar with the word tussah. Tussah is not just the moth, but is also the name for the silk produced by the moth. I know this because my mom sells tussah silk. [...]

  fierce tussah tempt slumber tabacosis tableau influence   Today I don’t feel like writing, but gold dern it, I’m going to write. I’ll not artlush, though I like that idea a lot. Movielush. Photolush.  I bared my breasts on youtube.  In case you’re wondering, here’s a few definitions:  Tussah : Oriental moth that produces [...]

Today I didn’t feel like writing so I decided to do something visual instead:

Tutankhamen lapping abaxial abient impulsive illegible dobro My brain is strangely clear this morning, after at 24-hour cocktail of fever, confusion, and a dash of fear. Diana dropped by for five minutes yesterday—five life-changing minutes as it turned out—for she came bearing two fantastic drugs – Theraflu, and Airborne. Airborne is just an all around [...]

Today’s Words  varnish slip grandmother pleather supreme inquietude splash The varnish on my heart isn’t so easy to remove. I’ve scrubbed, but it’s insistent. I sometimes think I’ll end up in a monastery, joking with the monks and planting beets. Spending my mornings in the garden, and my afternoons scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing at my heart, [...]

Today’s Words: unruly saddled suspended acronymic feverish onomatopoeic inscription There’s this Star Trek episode (no, years of mocking have not expunged that phrase from my narrative repertoire) where there is a running joke about Cap’n Picard’s saddle. It goes “every serious rider has his own saddle”. That doesn’t sound so funny, but imagine telling that to [...]

Today’s Words: ravish grub hinting vivacious tachometer lacuna immortality A paucity of sleep has ravished my brain. Grub cannot restore. Tachometer reads sloooooow. Forgive this lacuna in spewage, but though the gap will live in immortality, I cannot invent vivaciousness. I am spent and need a nap. Or perhaps my comrades wouldst return and post and [...]