The Goblin Market
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpeck'd cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheek'd peaches, Swart-headed mulberries, Wild free-born cranberries, Crab-apples, dewberries, Pine-apples, blackberries, Apricots, strawberries; - All ripe together In summer weather, - [...]
Inside Kermit’s Lair
Dear readers; the following post contains language and content that may be offensive to some. Really offensive. Like a lot of it... Yesterday was a supremely weird day. It began with my cat waking me at 7:00 am by biting the end of my nose as hard as [...]
Uncle Phillippe The Booze Maker
I hate forwarded emails. I usually delete them without even reading them, so when my uncle Don sent me a message with this subject header it sat untouched in my in box for four days. Last night, while cleaning up my inbox, I noticed it again and something compelled me [...]
Catorexia
Something is wrong with Toulouse. There's nothing left to him. He's all bones and clicky claws on the laminate floor. He's light as a feather, and when he stares at me, which he always does, his eyes are huge and glassy: like Nicole Ritchie. He's eating, and doing all other [...]
The Birthday Phone Calls
I can't recall which birthday this happened on, but one year when I was a little girl, my mom thought it would be really funny to have my aunt and my grown male cousin call me and pretend they were various characters and celebrities that I admired. I [...]
Sunday Poem (Freestyle)
Stop asking for feedback. Stop speaking of loneliness. Stop inviting us to engage in discourse, Share our ideas, Hear your voice. Stop sharing snippets of your world. Stop referencing your single status If you are going to be So cool So aloof So detached So disinterested So abrupt [...]