Through the Cracks - Yesterday, Upon the Stair
## Then the titles say: Part 5 - Yesterday, Upon the Stair The camera watches a bear and a coyote take seats on the couch next to eachother. It seems more than one person can be on screen at once, after all. The subtitles say ### Devon, Cameron,...
Through the Cracks - When You’re Not Feeling Holy Your Loneliness Tells You You’ve Sinned
## The titles say: Part 4 - When You're Not Feeling Holy Your Loneliness Tells You You've Sinned "I guess it makes sense." The Gila's claws are folded, he leans forward with his elbows on his knees. "Guy most likely to fall through the cracks is the...
Through the Cracks - All The Easy Speeches that Comfort Cruel Men
## The titles say: Part 3 - All The Easy Speeches that Comfort Cruel Men The black behind the titles fades into grainy footage, lower resolution, clearly an older camera, of a town in the desert. Lake in the distance behind it, mountains beyond that,...
Through the Cracks - With Dreams, With Drugs, With Waking Nightmares
## The titles say: Part 2 - With Dreams, With Drugs, With Waking Nightmares A sturdily built ram in a flannel shirt stares down at his clasped hands. What he has to say starts playing, while the camera still lingers on the shot of his clenched...
Through the Cracks - Had the Chance Been With Us that Has Not Been
## The titles say: Part 1 - Had the Chance Been With Us that Has Not Been "So." The bat is back, as the titles fade from the screen. They're replaced by subtitles, that say ### Mikhael - Private Investigator "First thing that happens when I walk in...
Through the Cracks - The Mouse Was the Only Proof the Field Existed
Perhaps it's in a theatre. Perhaps you click play on some video platform or streaming service. Perhaps it just began playing, on a screen that was supposed to be switched off. Wherever and however you watch it, it begins and The Title Says: Through...
History Repeats Because Those Who Write It Write Repetition
First they came for the socialists, and I spoke out-- Because I had read That Poem. Loved its pathos, Its tragedy, And its warning. They came for natives, black people, immigrants, refugees-- And I spoke out. They came for the poor...
And the Chunnering Wyrm Doth Chide
Well, it's a complicated story. This was a few years back, by now. I was trying to get up toward St. Arringer's, I'd had a message from a cousin there was work to be had. So I was catching long distance busses when I could afford em and hitchhiking...
Account of Presumed Ecstatic Experience during Initiation Rite in Unidentified Mystery Religion
It doesn't really matter how I died. Whether of time or tide or tiredness, But after this, the journey of my life I woke, to find myself in a dark wood. The way was lost, the night was long, and I Was more alone than I had ever been. It...
The Green Night
The air smelled green up in the mountains. Bertilak had insisted they'd have supper first, and talk on the back deck afterward. Gawain's explanation that he'd come a long way, didn't Bertilak know that? It took a day and a half by train and ferry and...
Rust River Valley Rail Crossing Three, Pop. 527
From the valley they say you are going I can see why you would. And I know As the slow grinding years Grind the hills into tears Each year grinds a little more slow. From this valley they say you are going. From this hopeless collection of...
Blank Verse Essay On the Treachery of Hope
You must learn how to live and not to hope For hope will be a luxury ere long. For hope can be both manacle and chain. For hope can keep you too spellbound to run Until the waters rise too high, and boil. You would not be the first. In ages...