Category Archives: personal faves

Lullaby

Posted on 31/05/2009 by

Likely the darkest thing I’ve written since high school. No doubt influenced by the script for The Pillowman. I felt I had to get this out of my system before picking up where I’d left off with pandas and rainbows. … Continue reading →

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I’ve Reason to Believe We Both Will Be Received

Posted on 13/05/2009 by

I’ve Reason to Believe We Both Will Be Received

Fingers drumming on the door and my neck bent in the seatbelt like I’m twelve again on another roadtrip, I realize I haven’t ridden passenger side in this car in quite a while. But this isn’t another roadtrip. We’re going to Graceland.

“He finally split with June,” my mother says. “She started talking marriage again and he got cold feet.”

Mom’s just returned home from Anacortes, Washington, a visit with her widowed father. An old man with a beautiful heart—pig valve included—and a belly full of tacos and laughs that erupts (in laughs, not tacos) as he slaps you on the back and tells you a dirty joke while you wait in Puget Sound for the crabs to notice the pots full of chicken guts. He discovered Adult Friend Finder recently. Continue reading →

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