I think it was inevitable that I should eventually read The Passage; after all, how could I refuse such a juicy, exciting premise of vampires dominating humans in a decimated world? It’s epic and ambitious, fast-paced and very readable… … and yet I finished feeling a lack of something that it is hard to put…
A year ago later this week, Miscellaneous Voices went to the printers and to celebrate this anniversary I’ve discounted it for a limited time. All you need to do is click on the sidebar or go over to the Miscellaneous Press website where you can make the purchase for $15.95 plus free postage. I can’t…
snatched over time from play and experience comes an equivalence of skills formed in the purity of moments you pluck dust from the air the dust into which we return you’re just a little early *this was one of my Month of Poetry (#MoP) poems.
One week till school goes back, one week till school goes back, one week… Honestly, who goes shoe shopping for the kids one week before school resumes? Me. I walked into the store to see an army of black leather being marched around to the choruses of “how do they feel?” and I mentally swore,…
Pouring the oats into a specified container carefully and evenly distributing contents into the four corners so the lid may fit I suddenly wish I could keep my life this balanced *** I found this on YouTube the other day. More on the poem (Members of my family will be in no way surprised to…
In a mood sore-footing her way along the uneven shore certain to find death and she did: a headless magpie, belly up, with salt-stiffened feathers maggots scatter from the belly as incomprehensible runes *** I’m a participant in this month’s Month of Poetry project/challenge. I haven’t been writing as much as I’d hoped, although I am a…
Some thoughts/points: 1) The shot of Riley is to show he has no shame in sitting down in the middle of a bookstore to read if the mood takes him. 2) After I finished Imperial Bedrooms I had a dream I was having a conversation with someone where I was saying that Imperial Bedrooms reminded…
While some are busy making resolutions for this year, of which I will presently speak, I first need to make a confession: I have had a creeping feeling for a little time now that this blog has been fueled less by passion and more by a scrabbling desperation I don’t think has shown up in…
