The Waiting Room – Published
“…We are all animals, Sophie, all of us. We think we are so smart—masters of our destinies, yes? We lie to ourselves that we have control. But if it does not rain, we die of thirst. If it rains too much, we drown…†Everyone needs to discover his or her own special place in the […]
Cyclone
My demon has returned. I felt him today when I got up. Not immediately but, as I stood there, making coffee, the tips of his gnarled, organic fingers suddenly latched onto the rungs of my spine. First one, then the other, starting at the small of my back, pulling himself up my spinal cortex like […]
Podcasted: Part 1 of My Bloody Valentine.
@WarriorYoda was kind enough to lend her voice and read the first part of the piece of twitterfiction Monocle and I were playing with: My Bloody Valentine (A Romance of Sorts). Please go and visit Monocle’s Podcast page to listen. I think that you will agree: it’s wonderful – she’s got the perfect voice for […]
Coming Together Presents Remittance Girl – Published
Please help me celebrate the publication of the very first anthology of my own stories: Coming Together Presents Remittance Girl. It’s published by Alessia Brio under the Coming Together imprint, edited by Lisabet Sarai, and contains 17 of my short stories in once handy-dandy volume.
Twitterfiction: My Bloody Valentine (A Romance of Sorts)
@_Monocle_ (Raziel Moore) and I started to construct this little piece of back and forth Twitter fiction just as an exercise to get over our respective writing blocks. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Twitter, it requires that the users post each post in 140 characters or less, so the writing is necessarily […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Tulpa. Please.
close your eyes please and think hard harder still until you are in me A few people were unfamiliar with the word ‘tulpa’. A tulpa is a being created out of the thought of a Buddhist adept, who can project this physical replica of themselves anywhere in space or time. For a longer explanation, see […]
On Sleep
I was looking for poems in Spanish on sleep and found this one by Borges. I’ve tried my very poor hand at translating it – not word for word, but for the spirit of it. El Sueño by Jorge Luis Borges Si el sueño fuera (como dicen) una tregua, un puro reposo de la mente, […]
Everything is Happening All at Once!
It’s been a hell of a week. Apologies for the lack of posts. This morning, however, I have two bits of news. Monocle has just had his story collection, Through A Tinted Lens, published at Republica Press. Through a Tinted Lens contains six delightful, daring, and dangerous erotic stories for women: A cheated-on woman finds […]
Silence
Silence devours time, covering me like a thick numbing blanket of pristine snow. I slumber beneath. Cold creeps in, the infectious disease of a dead heart. like frost spreading across glass blind. Words protect us, inoculation from the paralyzing vacuum of doubt. Tell me you love me still Or let me sleep.