I took apart a small cardboard box covered in shiny blue foil today. I made it out of scraps when I was a teenager, glued the dark foil onto the cardboard with navy nail polish, used a broken earring I found in a burned out house as a clasp. It went with the waterproof dead-drop that I put in the messy rose bush outside my bedroom window, my pre- ( Read more... )

Dear annoying man who always bombs around my apartment with an offensively loud dirtbike at inappropriate hours,

It is two:twenty in the morning. You do this a lot. It is always a problem, but right now especially so. Please stop. There are three inches of snow on that cobblestone street. Today you are waking the neighbors and you might die. ( Read more... )

Soon she's down the stairs
Her morning elegance she wears
The sound of water makes her dream
Awoken by a cloud of steam
She pours a daydream in a cup
A spoon of sugar sweetens up

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Remember that little note I e-mailed to my father right before my birthday? I forgot entirely about it until today. There are, so far, four replies.

To refresh your memory, here is what happened last time.

LETTER ONE

RE: Hi dad, it's my 25th birthday this week - Uhmm ...‎

Sent: May 30, 2007 5:36:47 PM

whoever you might be

This is XXXXX* Holmes ( Read more... )

I sent a letter to my father this morning. Yes, my violent, clinically psychotic, paranoid schizophrenic father who I can only hope is now old enough to be toothless instead of terrifying. (There's a long shot, wow). There is always a chance the e-mail will bounce back. The address I have for him is very old, from five or six years ago. Here are ( Read more... )

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I sent out actual letters awhile ago. I found paper and rubber stamps, crayons and glitter, and I made some letters. I wrote words down on paper. How are you? The world here is turning as well and the leaves will soon be scarlet. They were put in envelopes and affixed with stamps. They were put in a mailbox and collected by a postal worker. They ( Read more... )