It's a dark & dreary night.  One of my room mates is trying to teach herself the accordian in the living room while another tries to sing along in Yiddish.  I don't think what he's singing is actually Yiddish at all.  I've locked myself in my room ( Read more... )

Pardon the blood on this letter.  It certainly isn’t moose blood, despite moose being what Margaret Atwood, Michael Ontaatje, Miriam Towes, and I are currently tracking.  It’s human blood.  My own, actually. I was tying rope to a tree to secure our dollar store tarp over the tents.  When I went to sever the excess length of the rope, my hand ( Read more... )

There were two sisters standing in line at Safeway. One was called Louise and she wore a dress that looked like a doily that someone's grandma had knit many years ago. She held a plastic basket containing Smarties and M&Ms, maraschino cherries, and cream. The other sister wore a pair of brown corduroy pants with a grey hoodie. She held only a ( Read more... )

Little Oedipus has wandering yellow eyes
that peer out of a smeared Picasso like
face.

Little abstract calico cat,
Your nerves push against your painted surface
But still
You are as stiff as a stone gargoyle

Stuck up on a concrete roof.

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I was thirty six years old when I lost my job at Walmart and the first thing that I did was buy a dog ( Read more... )

Dorris found the head of customer relations to be intolerant and prone to temper tantrums at the slightest hint of unproductivity, but he listened right away to her entire story. Much to her dismay. To be fair, given the situation, it couldn’t very well be avoided ( Read more... )

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"When you live for someone you're prepared to die"

My Barbie doll didn't wear a dress. She wore a black wetsuit that was so much a part of her identity that it was painted right on to her skin. She had plastic pink flippers and a pink one piece bathing suit that complimented her immaculately applied makeup. (Waterproof mascara, no doubt.)

She was ( Read more... )

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