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“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Sep
22

Ink In Thirds was nice enough to include one of my stories

Turning pages, turning leaves, turning time. I honestly cannot believe another season has begun its transition. The moments I spend with the written word and art between these pages are always some of my most treasured encounters. Reading and curating the innermost workings of our contributors, I always come to the same conclusion: We are […]

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Oct
17

snowballed

(first appeared 10/9/2012 as a spoken word story on www.thetripodcat.com, may it RIP, as read by Brogan Sullivan)   Did you know that if you throw a snowball against a wall it will leave a mark that looks identical to your hand? Obviously, the size of the splatter and subsequent handprint will be relative to […]

Oct
16

a thought about scrambled eggs

(originally posted  12/13/2021 with the disclaimer “not a story per se as much as an idle thought”)     I watched this show on the connection between time and entropy and it got me to thinking. The basic idea of the show was that on a quantum level, there is no reason that time has […]

Oct
15

hangers

(originally posted 6/1/2014)   Always on the lookout for the next threat to global stability, I started doing the math on hangers the other day. If the average working person wears five shirts a week that require dry cleaning, they are bringing in five additional hangers into their closets every week. Assuming that their non-dry […]

Oct
14

Progressive journalist unleashes on liberal intolerance that drove her away from Democratic Party

(Personally I’m a fiscal conservative and socially liberal, i.e. I’m pro choice and support gay marriage (although I think that men competing against women is reprehensible). This upcoming election isn’t about Republican vs. Democrat though. It is about supporters of America as a country and those that want to see it burn. Hyperbole? They want […]

Oct
13

itch

(first appeared at behindcloseddoorslitmag.wordpress.com on 2/15/2013)   There are two kinds of itches. Don’t ask me what an itch is, I have no idea, but I do know there are two varieties. There’s the garden-variety itch that you scratch and that’s the end of it and then there’s the bouncing itch. The itch that when […]

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