Archive for May, 2006
AWAD: Proceleusmatic
“God… he was so… what’s the word?”
Sandra and I are going through old photos from when we were kids. She hasn’t lost an ounce of cute but I’ve sure gained a few pounds of middle. We’re looking at a black and white with scalloped edges of her grandad, standing on a big rock, shading the […]
With Apologies to Mr. Steinbeck
From The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 14.
The traditional media, nervous under the beginning change. The Mainstream Media, nervous as horses before a thunder storm. The great owners, nervous, sensing a change, knowing nothing of the nature of the change. The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening authorship, the growing self-publishers; striking at […]
AWAD: Scrabble
“Have you heard the story about how Lance and I met? Oh it’s such a great story! Lance tells it better than me. Lance! Lancey! Tell Terry how we met.”
Lance comes over, wine in hand.
“Terry doesn’t really want to hear this old story.” he says, obviously settling in to a practiced routine. I feel […]
AWAD: Plashy
Oh!
Oooooooooooooooh!
Rain rain rain rain rain! Want to play in the yard! Want to splash! Walk time walk time walk time!
Oooooooooooooooh!
Lookitthepuddles! The yard’s all plashy! Want to play want to play want to play!
Huh? Whassat?
Dinner! Dinner dinner dinnnnnnnner!
Oooooooooooooooh!
Feedmefeedmefeedme.
Mmmmmmm.
Wait! Whassat?! Whoosit?! Oh!
Oooooooooooooooh!
Rain rain rain rain rain!
(The life of a dog)
AWAD: Aphotic
I wasn’t always a vampire.
None of us where, really. Once upon a time, before the need to be aphotic and the Thirst, we were all just normal people like you. People who rode the subway while the sun was still high and who didn’t fetishly watch necks walking by and necks sitting on patios and […]