“Don’t ever leave me.” And even as I tucked the last of my things into the suitcase, brutalizing my own molars and smearing away the tears with the heel...
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“Don’t ever leave me.” And even as I tucked the last of my things into the suitcase, brutalizing my own molars and smearing away the tears with the heel...
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I walked Amanda up the shallow stone steps of St. James’ Church at Spanish Place, under the shadows of its uncanny gargoyles and into the cool, dark interior. In...
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“Isn’t she pretty?” He lay the shiny, flat surface of the razor across her lower lip and pulled. The blade so finely milled it slid as if oiled....
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I have commissioned for him a fountain pen with a nib of surgical steel. So the obscenities he writes across my back will last. He writes the things I...
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As the venerable Edward R. Murrow would have said: “Good night, and good luck”.
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Someone asked me to explain why I’m blacking out on January 18th. I’d like to be upfront about this: it is not simply the SOPA bill that I oppose....
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When I was six, I was taken to the opening of an art exhibit at a gallery. This is how I was taught how to experience art: you walk...
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This is just a little note to let you know that my site will be participating in the 8hr blackout in support of the anti-SOPA movement. I passionately support...
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Someone once speculated that Jack the Ripper was a vampire. Well, of course he was. His horrific acts of violence were exactly what might have been expected from an...
“Have you fed?” Daniel spoke without looking at me. He was lying exactly where I’d left him a month ago, on the white and blue striped lounge in front...
Argyle, Scotland, 1832 “Nay! Na-ay! I’ll niver gang wi’ ye!” The small boy, swaddled with blankets, cried out into the darkness. After each word, he took a loud, wheezing...
They say that rules are made to be broken, but ‘they’ haven’t met Daniel. He takes rules very seriously because, he insists, they keep us alive. This is something...
When you are not here, I’m in shadow. And when you are in shadow still. Your absence is a silent void burned onto concrete. Your presence simply the shaded...
My dream teeth shred against my tongue like sodden fingernails I am my father’s daughter and I have his teeth secreted inside me Hard and cold as death these...
Here is my hand cool word curled around the curvature of your neck. Here my lips soft, moist letters plumped with desire pressing, half parted against your cheek. And...