Anaphylaxis
_The soil of a man's heart is stonier._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Stephen King, _Pet Sematary_ The death of Dr. Martin Perry, Ph.D., was remarked upon, and mourned, in many quarters, but most of all his academic community, at the University of Florida,...
Art Bell Gets His Money's Worth: I
_...yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that_ _are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns._ _\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\__ _Alan Moore_ The...
To Your Grave
No doubt you have read of the Witches' Sabbath, and have laughed at the tales which terrified our ancestors; the black cats, and the broomsticks, and dooms pronounced against some old woman's cow. Since I have known the truth I have often reflected...
Ursa Minor
Bears sleep by day. At night they stay awake to chase away bad dreams. _________ Jesse O'Neil February in western Virginia is the time of the thaw - the weather becomes finer and warmer and the careless tossings of Winter's wrath become...
Anaphylaxis
Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. _________ William Shakespeare, Measure For Measure, Act III, scene...
Sic Itur Ad Astra
And, as a dying meteor stains a wreath Of moonlight vapour, which the cold night clips,It flush'd through his pale limbs, and pass'd to its eclipse._________ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonaïs The North Carolina highway, the one that led to the...
Wolfentraum: One
Under the cloud-murk he moved towards it until it shown above him, a sheer keep of fortified gold. _________ Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney Siegfried Stone wondered if history would record his every move these few days he would be in Roanoke...
The Decaying Mall
When did this town become a mausoleum?_________ Luke Divers It is a well-known fact that Crossroads Mall in Roanoke, Virginia, was for many years in an advanced state of decay. Yet for one reason or another, the mall still...
Bloom
_Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Vladimir Nabokov, _Mary_ When Dakota Tyree's mom, Lisa, who gave him the nickname _Cody_, was still alive, and his dad Teddy was...
The Dogs: Ask Now the Beasts
Are not these woodsMore free from peril than the envious court? _________ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene i The first time Bligh Lynch realized something about him was a little strange and that he was more than what he...
The Dogs: Hand In Heart - Thy Love More Than Wine
Their bedroom stank, actually stunk, a clinging odor that raked the air, the combined smells, Bligh and Cody, both of them - Bligh's Earthen musky woodsiness, Cody's mellifluous cream. Bligh finished sending the text message -...
The Dogs: Hand In Heart - Episode I
Even in October it is still warm in Tampa Bay, still balmy, the mugginess does not abate and so it is still shorts weather - this was the allure and thrill of the area many years ago, the marvel that, to the northerners that dwelt in the...