Anger was pouring off his skin like liquid. His fingers curled into his palms as he stalked over to the table, one that had been sitting there since it was settled into place years ago. The fingers turned into claws as he dug them into the surface, seeking purchase upon the edge before […]
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. - Anita Brookner
‘Ignosce mihi, Pater, quia peccavi.’
I mumble the words against the softness of your inner thigh. It is, I think, my announcement to God that this sin is utterly carnal, intentional and totally within my power. Latin makes you […]
I admit there are sometimes I want to take that knife and bury it to the hilt in someone’s shoulder. Shoulder - that soft place just below the collarbone, before the breast, in case you needed clarity. I am not able to picture me stabbing someone in any more delicate places, but, as […]
A prayer. I wonder if His lips curl into the same sneer upon hearing them as I do repeating them for you. I don’t know how better to express this erratic thought process. I’m certain there was more, but I can’t remember it. Me, writer of everyone but myself. Perhaps […]
I’ve just gone to see the Da Vinci Code. Not being one to follow Catholic edict all of the time, I just had to see the movie based on the book I read ages ago. In so far as books to movies go, it passes, but misses some marks.
I’m not here to review […]
It was 10 months or so, in reality. I had just broken up with N - a vicious breakup that left us both bleeding profusely from everywhere but the places you can see. It was an ugly time and my response to overwhelming emotional pain was to simply not acknowledge its existence. […]
I’ve been asked to deliver the eulogy for a friend that passed recently. His mother arrived at my office yesterday morning and asked it of me. She said it was something he wanted - I knew, he had mentioned it years ago when he was first diagnosed with the brain cancer […]
I’ve lived through every kind of weather you can imagine.
Tornados - Texas has them in spades. Virginia, also.
Hurricanes - No place better than Florida, North Carolina and Virginia - I’ve lived in all three during a major storm. (and now Texas)
Hail - Reference Texas again. Dimes, Quarters, Softballs? I’ve […]