March 2012
6 posts
I learned how to crawl, and then walk, and then drive. And then, I learned to walk.
If one has the gall to deny their tears when leaving their mother for the first extended period of time, then they assuredly weren’t raised by her. Sure, I cried when she and my stepfather bid me adieu, leaving me without my house or car nearby. The latter proved more of an issue in the ensuing months. I...
“I think it’s great for two people to be together. That is a good number. I...”
– Henry Rollins
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When Carlisle gave up Little League just a few months shy of his 12th birthday, not one of his teammates could’ve guessed that he’d hang on to his baseball pants. He wouldn’t wear them again, but he could.
He used to stop by the swanky coffee spot on his way to junior high, it was one of his growth stunting outlets. He relished the genteel twenty-somethings that preferred their...
There’s a whole lot of non-fiction in the fiction we write, our stories rife with personal experience. There’s always a box, no matter how far outside of it one intends to stretch. Thus the paradox, is it better to have a larger box from which to draw or a smaller box, leaving the rest to be conjured without reference.
Location, location, location. Realtors covet places based largely on their proximity to other places; desirable places. Desirably places are inhabited by desirable people, often deemed so by desirably lofty amounts of dispensable income, or by other desirable people. Aren’t we all concerned with how we stack up? Face cards in a deck. Kings and queens wish to coalesce with kings and queens,...
