The Mongrel, part III
"So tear me open but beware "There's things inside without a care "And the dirt still stains me "So wash me ... till clean "I'll tear me open, make you gone "No longer will you hurt anyone "And the hate still shapes me "So hold me, until...
Hollow Eyes 2: Coming Home
A cabin sat alone in the woods, awaiting the return of its owner as it had for several months. But it was a pleasant place to wait. The woods in the mountains of North Carolina are something out of a storybook. Tolkien could write at least a trillion...
Broken World: Desire - Part IV (Final)
_The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The...
The Broken World 3: Willow's Choice
“There’s a ribbon in the willow and a tire swing rope “Oh, and a briar patch of berries takin’ over the slope “The cat’ll sleep in the mailbox and we’ll never go to town “Till we bury every dream in the cold, cold ground.” --Tom Waits,...
Broken World: Desire (Part 3)
Part III _"I like fighting," said the Wart. "It is knightly."_ _"Because you're a baby."--T.H. White,The Once and Future King_ Graadig sat eating cottage pie with his fingers as he watched the third man's body being tossed into the nearest fire. Now...
The Mongrel, part II
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind." --Mahatma Gandhi --- The doors of the city opened before them like the lid of a coffin revealing the rotting corpse within. Two figures waited in line, shuffling slowly one weary half-footstep at a...
The Broken World 3: Willow's Choice (Part 3)
“Tell me yourself directly, I challenge you--reply: imagine that you yourself are erecting the edifice of human fortune with the goal of, at the finale, making people happy, of at last giving them peace and quiet, but that in order to do it it would be...
The Whole World Smils With You
It was late afternoon when the monster walked (or stumbled) into the dark cave, the heavy footfalls of her broad hooves sinking into the warm sand. The beast dragged her long tail behind her lethargically like the mantle of some long-forgotten empress,...
The Broken World 3: Willow's Choice (Part 2)
“I understand,” said Paneloux. “It is outrageous because it is beyond us. But perhaps we should love what we cannot understand.” Rieux sat up abruptly. He looked at Paneloux with all the strength and passion he could muster and shook his head. ...
The Whole World Smils With You (Epilogue)
The U.S. is an amalgam, in every sense of the word. This tends to happen when the majority of a country’s citizens are descended from immigrants who journeyed from all around the world to a place that offered opportunity, prosperity, and the promise of...
On the Torment of Scylla and the Cruelty of Glowcow
_She stood there rooted to a rock, in her unutterable misery hating and destroying everything that came within her reach ..._ _--Edith Hamilton,_Mythology _Hasa Diga Eebowai_ _--Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez,_ The Book of Mormon Gods...