So the refrigerator is on partial strike. Not total, just partial. It still keeps stuff frozen and cold. It still dispenses water. But it suddenly seems to come up short when it is asked to give out ice. Now going off of past performance I know that it is fully capable of producing ice on request. But something recently has changed. Someone decided ( Read more... )

There seems to be this horrible rectangle with four sides, lurking out there that we never talk about. And by "we" I of course mean everyone that has ever lived and will ever live...or I just mean me. Take the safer pick. Go ahead ( Read more... )

There are a dozen hot air balloons
Floating against the overcast, sunrisen soaked sky of Reno
Above some sort of picturesque valley that is only appreciated by those who have been deprived of the color green their whole life
And it should mean something
It should stir the soul
Lift the spirits much like, well, you know
And yet...
It falls short in ( Read more... )

It's a strange thing when life isn't as complicated as you expect it to be. You have to fight back that unhealthy urge to add complication because...well...it should be complicated...shouldn't it? I mean after all that has been said, and done, and yet...

In the silence you both share these slightly stupid stares, these moments where it feels as if ( Read more... )

People want understanding, right? Sadly understanding just grabbed justification and headed to the nearest bar to tie one on for what's about to happen here. And morality? Morality hasn't been seen in these parts for quite some time. So that leaves you waiting on guilt, or blame, or the mighty hand of god or internet revenge to strike you down...or ( Read more... )

( The Agent's Got No Secret, Anymore... )

Vacations ( Read more... )

Getting to her is half of the...

Well it's just half of it. Finding that right combination of anesthesia and patior. The correct balance of a denied reality and that wonderful "beyond" place where ramifications have long ago gone extinct. Getting to her requires glass after glass, or bottle after bottle, meaning that it's a liquid lunch as well as ( Read more... )

He was a preacher. It was a life he walked into fully realized. There was no pressure from the parents, he wasn't hiding from the horrible scary thing called life, and he suffered none of those great traumas that causes some to seek shelter in such places. He was a preacher of The One, The True and The Only because he believed in it. Because it ( Read more... )

He stood in the hallway wishing to believe in alternate realities and rest buttons.

As can happen in life there was a choice before him. To enter the hotel room or to leave the building entirely. It doesn't quite sound like Hamlet, but it doesn't have to.

The easy choice was to enter and reap all the short term rewards found there. To rape, plunder ( Read more... )