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...
Upriver
They say he still wears clothes, but he'll take to the water soon._________H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" August - that time of the year when a stillness descends on the land, after the panicked fever-fires of July that ring...
Hecho En Florida
Hecho En Florida He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies._________ George Orwell, Animal Farm Anyone who has travelled that part of I-4 from Tampa to Orlando...
Rat Prince: Act III
Rat PrinceAct III Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..._________ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Recantation" "Hampton..." Cameron was sure it was him, the thick-rimmed glasses set in the owl-like face,...
An Inner Impulse Rent the Veil: Movement One
An Inner Impulse Rent the VeilMovement One We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, but who is the other that hides in me?"_________ Arthur Machen, Holy...
The Forest of the Noonday Sun
The Forest of the Noonday Sun Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungallèd play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away._________ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene ii West of...