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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XVIII
When he returned to the apartment and opened the door, Andrew was met with an unexpectedly cute sight - Bligh, up against the arm of the couch, Cody on top of him with his head resting against his chest, arms around his waist, snuggled up, watching...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XIV
Three clinks on the small, round table in the indented alcove next to the kitchen that was meant to be the apartment's dining room announced that Andrew's dinner for the three of them - a plate of pancakes with pads of butter melting in the midst of...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XIII
Andrew was silent on the ride to the Green Room - a mere five minutes, but the interior of his car, even with the windows down, was still laced with a palpable tension, as it had been that afternoon...but all the while, his hand never left Bligh's....
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XII
Andrew, fully dressed - his new canid ears stuffed, thankfully easily, into that old USF cap, his furry legs and tail hidden by a pair of khakis, and the padded wolf-like feet luckily fitting neatly into an his other pair of shoes, some Adidas he had...
The Dogs: Not Exactly Night - Episode XI
Andrew's sleep was deep and dreamless - it was a complete, nigh-comatose blackness, the absence of color and light that being exhausted brings, his brain and body shutting down from the strain it had endured over the past twenty-four hours. He awoke...