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: 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...
Naantam, Naantam
They have supposed that there is something in the soil, climate and other circumstances of America, which occasions animal nature to degenerate, not excepting the man, native or adoptive, physical or moral._________ Thomas Jefferson, Notes On the...