December 2011
5 posts
Hisssssss
When she was seven, Rebecca found a snake.
She was sitting in the grass behind the playground with a girl named Jessie. She wasn’t all too fond of Jessie but it was someone to talk to and make daisy-crowns with so she didn’t complain.
Truth be told, Jessie was her only friend.
Rebecca was surprisingly shy.
Anyway, they were sitting in the grass tying stems together into tiny...
“And my head told my heart
“Let love grow”
But my heart told my...”
– Mumford & Sons
Truth Begets Lies
He was quiet and unassuming and spoke entreatingly.
The clothes he wore were of a quiet nature, old and plain but lacking the grime that so often accompanies those who have known the greater challenges of living.
His face was wrinkled but not, I think, by the passage of time.
I first heard his story in the early fall.
He approached with with a small, chastened smile—said:
Well hi, hi...
The Body Stayed Behind
Robert awoke disoriented. He felt strange.
There was a numbness coursing through him, a current of total unfeeling, that seemed to have neither a point of origin nor any foreseeable end. He could flex the current, bend it, twist it around and aim it in different directions. He could stretch it, do anything he wanted with it, really.
It was as though he had been swept up into a lovely cloud of...
