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...
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...
Everything Goes Green (Parts I-III: Commission For Kybal Lutra)
_And in the day, when he shall walk abroad,_ _Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad_ _My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,_ _Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay..._ _\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\__ Christopher Marlowe,_Edward II_, Act I,...
Depths
_For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves that we find in the sea_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ E.E. Cummings, "maggie and milly and molly and may" **i.** Every beach in Florida has been mercilessly colonized - every beach in Florida...
The Dogs: Born For Adversity
_Mais tu ne dois pas l'oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Antoine de Saint Exupéry, _Le Petit Prince_ The Eckerd College campus, with its vaguely Brutalist attempt to conjure up Floridian...
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 stands -...
The Dogs: Maketh the Day Dark
**August 7th, 2013, Lynch Mountain, Tempest, West Virginia** _One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of...
The Dogs: Hath A Familiar Spirit
_Anyone who has ever lived in West Virginia, or even travelled through the state, can easily see what an ideal place it would be for ghosts._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Ruth Ann Musick, _The Telltale Lilac Bush_ Moonshine is the drink of the mountaineer -...
The Dogs: Maketh the Day Dark
_One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more...
The Dogs: Before Thou Camest Forth
_May you live as long as you want to, and then pass smilingly into the darkness - the good, good darkness._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Ambrose Bierce How long had he been here? He had been here a long time. Sometimes it was hard to tell because this...
Depths, Parts i-iv
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves that we find in the sea_________ E.E. Cummings, "maggie and milly and molly and may" i. Every beach in Florida has been mercilessly colonized - every beach in Florida is...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVI
He was twelve again - just old enough to get wise to his Pa and everything he stood for, still old enough to know that Bligh was the most important person in his life. Even little Stevie, his own brother - ten years old, pale and gaunt and morbidly...