“Write about a messy area in your home, workplace, or life.” I have a corner, and it’s more catchall than kitsch, honestly. It’s not for lack of trying (sometimes) but no matter what I do to fix it up it somehow continuously falls back into disrepair. But it’s comfortable, and while everything in my life … Continue reading 300 Writing Prompts: #65
“The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.” ~Charles Dudley Warner I always felt inferior to my sister, for one reason or another, throughout those early, formative, years. It was never her fault, of course, but you couldn’t … Continue reading Expecting the World
I love school. If I could have stayed in school forever (without racking up a helluva lot of fees) I would have in a heartbeat. What’s not to love? Going to class in whatever you happen to be wearing, and no one judges. Doing research on whatever the topic happens to be and learning so … Continue reading Back to School
In the summer of 1992 I was desperate to forge an identity for myself, as most teenagers are, I suppose, so I came up with a bright idea to make it happen. “Call me Anthony,” I told anyone who cared to listen, trying on the name for size and finding that I liked it. “But … Continue reading Call Me Anthony
“Through a fractal on a breaking wall, I see you my friend, and touch your face again.” ~Seal These ghosts don’t lie With their translucence Drifting through walls Such a consciousness Sliding out of shadows And into a formless void Concave like craters Drilled into concrete To shake the specters free These clinging memories Shrouded … Continue reading Spectral
Why is change always so hard? Routine is easy, but change is a monster put in the corner for fear that it will destroy everything in its path. So many people stay put in ruts and call them routines instead, rituals they actually can’t live without but that are destroying them moment by routinized moment. … Continue reading Change For Change’s Sake
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