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February 2011

27 posts

Professor Johnson was standing up at the front of the class. He would mumble rapidly in a low tone, when suddenly he would punctuate awkwardly some misplaced accent. His words had the jagged rhythm of someone who had spent a lot of time reading, and not a lot listening. Occasionally he would slip and pronounce a word phonetically. So buffet, became Buff-it, or epitome would become...

One Thing Left Out of the Plan

Okay. Okay I can think my way out of this. I think if I can saw on this rope with this nail, I should be able to cut through the rope. Damn these pirates! That’s maybe another week or two? I have to wait for when they aren’t watching. They keep an almost constant watch on this shift, pulling shifts at all hours of the day to keep this tub afloat. That storm last week was pretty bad. I was...

It could have been that day I took a trip out to the island in the middle of the lake and found that old shed in the forest there. It’s hard to tell because your life passes in a blur. Whole parts of my life are like grey, that I haven’t wanted to remember. It is school or work. Nothing really to commit to. So there really is no difference. Every day has been a Thursday for the...

There were only seventeen steps the gallows from my cell. I had walked them time and time again my sleep. Waking nightmares where I felt each final clip of my heels on the pavement. Everything seems so much more important when you know it will be your last. Your last smoke, your last meal, last words, last itch, shit, breath. It all becomes so big, and fills your...

The sun was beginning to set. The warm glow radiated off the sands. They were growing cool fast while the surf that frothed over the grainy surface stayed warm long after like some sleeping giant that covered the entire earth in its wet hibernation. On this stretch of beach, on this one coast, on this one continent, on this one blue planet, in one smallish solar system amongst...

The mug of coffee had gone cold nearly fifteen minutes ago. Elizabeth was slumped back in her seat looking at the ceiling. Her hands were still gripped around the coffee, but she hadn’t taken a sip from it since it had been steaming hot. She had been in the park that day. She had walked through the park because she felt good and the air was nice. Spring was coming...

So technically I am supposed to do creative writing posts, but this one is more philosophical because I couldn’t really come up with much of a creative writing post for it. I tried to think of it as practice for the thematic material and backbone of a story though. So ultimately it could be useful. There is supposed to be something out of place. Things get really cluttered in a dorm room....

South of the World's End

Log 295 Setting out from Madrid I never thought we would see sights so brilliant. I was prepared for the toll the terrible journey would take on our company of men, but for the honor of the Queen and Church I was willing to explore into the southern lands of gold. All this does not matter anymore. I first saw him coming out of the far distance thousands of miles...

Information is the basis of life. DNA is when it all got started. Before that, its just puddles of mud and rocks floating. Inside each of us is a thousand long lines of code. This is the Word. And when the Word was spoken, there was life. I have been puzzling through my own kinds of words for the past year. I am a cryptographer. It means words are my specialty....

I have been standing in this fluorescent bright white grocery store for the past 14 hours. I sort of shiftless walk around, but I don’t really know where to go. What to do. There isn’t really much to do. Standing is the same a sitting, which is the same as walking. I have no where to walk to. I ache all over. Deep in my bones like slow splinters picking their way deep inside. My face is slack and...

“Hey? Who is that? Who are you?” I called out. My voice was hallow in long flat field. I had been separated from my comrades struggling through the rural farmland in the pitch of night. A dark purple silhouette walked towards me. He was just a solid shadow cut out of the sky. I only knew he was real and not a trick of the light because the steady crunch of his feet...

She didn’t deserve this. I know that. Its probably the last thing I still believe in. When I was a kid, I was bigger than everyone else. I wasn’t stronger than everyone else. I was just a lot slower than the rest. I was big. I got the nickname “Troll”, because I was so big. My hands were big. I ate a lot. Catherine was one of the few who wouldn’t make fun of me. I was scared of...

I’ve always had an unhealthy sexual fascination with pineapples. It’s gone on like some tragic high-school romance, off and on over the years. I don’t mean I like the taste of pineapples, though I do (do you know what it is like to eat the ones you love? Sweet). I mean that pineapples are… arousing. Pineapples are sharp. She has serrated leaves like a razorblade caress. She is...

I woke up one morning with the worst hangover of my life. I hauled myself up and squinted into the mirror to find a barcode tattooed on my forehead. I had been spending the last couple of months going out a lot more. Not with friends really. I had broken up with a long standing girlfriend. Most of my friends were actually just her friends. When we broke up, I found myself a stranger in a strange...

Sorry this one is late. I actually finished it on time but things have been crazy so I kinda didn’t get around to posting it. Its probably one of my favorites so far. I went over the limit actually. He groaned like rusted metal straining at its joint. He stood up, all 7 feet of him. All 1.5 tons of him. All metal and wire, and gears. He was bare metal with a hastily painted...

Till the Last One Stands

I feel the wind whistle. It rolls across the charred grounded stirring up little patches of ash. Nothing has grown here in quite some time. My aching old limbs barely even creak in the wind. I have no more leaves and my limbs have begun to petrify inwards. Slowly hard stale wood over takes me. Only my heart and roots are left. For miles dappled sun spotted the ground. There was nothing here...

Good Advice →

Clark ran around the catapult and checked the fulcrum. His horse neighed at its post. The wood creaked a low groan under the tension that bent the wood near its breaking point. The anchor wires strained tight as solid rods. They would not budge. They held fast to the ground secured by concrete insets and quick release cables. The crowd gathered around in the middle of the field, waiting for it to...

Wandering through the wild woods, I wondered where the wolf cubs wrestled. Where would they roam? I went over water and wrinkled earth. I wrapped my arms around rough trunks. I ran over wide ranges and through wet wields. Wheezing and rolling down hills I pressed on through the morass of wrong doers. I would return my wayward whippersnappers. There was warm hearths and old worn burrows for...

I Wanna Be Sedated

She fingers the cords to her iPhone headphones. These head-buds are always in her ear. She thinks it means she is someone who truly appreciates music. Really, it’s just she doesn’t know how to carry on a normal conversation with someone. People are a little scary. If you put up a front, its easier. People like what you pretend to be. Not that a punk should care what others think...

An Out of Body Experience.

Dear Diary, Today was the first day back at school. It was like the best day ever! We just get our books and stuff. No one wants to work, not even the teacher! So we sat around and talked at lunch and I got to see Katy again. I think we are friends again. Last year she was being really mean, but I gave her a summer present, so I think we are friends again. She has been to France...

I was under my sheets. Two pillows propped up the old quilt and I clenched a flashlight between my neck and shoulder. One more chapter. One more, because then I knew…what was that? My light flashed off. I sit deadly still, and I can hear my heart jamming against my throat. Okay, never mind. Parents are in bed. Everything is fine. I flick the light back on. I flip through the cheap yellow pages…...

The third time the alarm went off, Jacob didn’t even bother hitting the snooze button. It kept ringing until I got up and yanked its cord. Jacob never sleeps in late. Jacob always gets up early and reads the paper while reading the paper. I looked over at him and sighed. I was getting dressed. I had work. The roads were icy. Every half-awake person was driving...

Misplaced Fingers Manual

Instruction Manual Section 4RSE83 Digit Misplacement Procedure: Sometimes under certain circumstances, fingers can be lost or misplaced. If you have misplaced your fingers then please reference this guide. Remember that this section is only for misplaced fingers. If you cannot identify the location of your fingers, first make sure that eyeballs are properly installed and no custom...

The Body Politic.

“I am sick and tired of this” complained Stomach “Heart is slacking again. Why does he always have to be so wound up? Can’t the guy work any harder?” “Give him a break. He is trying hard at least.” said Bowel. “You and I have it pretty easy.” “What? Bullshit!” shouted Stomach. “I don’t know. I am not sure what any of you guys do, but you don’t need to get upset about anything” drawled Appendix...

Its really impossible. There is no hope of doing it. But somehow you got to understand. Is beyond the flat and the rough and the cold. Its more than just warm and soft and its like slick wet skin. I don’t think you will ever understand. But try. You know the smell. Remember yesterday when we went out into the pine forest? You felt the prickle and scrape of the pine...