The Dogs: Litany - Episode II
It was a five minute drive, probably less, and at that hour of the evening, barely six and everything closing for the day, it should have taken them less, but no - Bligh's Ranger was out of gas, he was going to fill up Monday, but tonight...
Rat Prince: Act I
Rat PrinceAct IAffirmant quidam inueniri aliquando rattum cæteris maiorem, procerior & latiore corpora qui à cæteris otiofus alatur. Rattorum regem, appellant._________ Konrad Gesner, Historiæ Animalium It was just to take his mind off...
The Dogs: Litany - Episode I
It was very late afternoon that Sunday, the September Sun languid and broken through the blinds, and Andrew was in the kitchen, cutting up chicken for a dinner, on the bamboo board he had bought at Publix the last time he had gone there...
How Shadows Taste (reupload)
Must your light like mine be hidden, Your young life like mine be wasted, Undone in mine undoing, And ruin'd in my ruin, Thirsty, canker'd, goblin-ridden?_________ Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" It gets dark out here at night,...
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...
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...
Rat Prince: Act III
**Act III** _Should you a Rat to madness tease_ _Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Recantation" Dark as it was, he was sure it was him... ...the thick-rimmed glasses set in the owl-like face,...
Rat Prince: Act II
**Act II ** _Ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Pliny the Elder, _Naturalis Historia_ It had been three days - had it been so long? He was there again, back where it all started, laying on the hardwood floor of the...
Rat Prince: Act I
**Act I ** _Affirmant quidam inueniri aliquando rattum c __æ__ teris__maiorem, procerior & latiore corpora qui à cæteris otiofus alatur. Rattorum regem, appellant._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Konrad Gesner, _Historiæ Animalium_ It was just to take his...
Nervous Boys
_The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! It crumbles, tick-tick time drags it in Till now his arteries lag and now they start Reverence with the frigid gusts of sin. ** ** _ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Allen Tate, "Idiot" _Caleb was his sin and Caleb...
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 - a...
Forests of the Noonday Sun (Collab With Xax)
_Why, let the stricken deer go weep,_ _The hart ungalled play;_ _For some must watch, while some must sleep:_ _So runs the world away._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ William Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, Act III, Scene ii West of Asheville the Appalachians rise...