What time do you find yourself most creative? I always feel more creative at...
I always feel most creative at night, too. :)“At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at...
View Article"Those who are hardest to love need it the most."
“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.” - Socrates (via ostentatiousramblings)
View ArticleHave do you write so many pieces so quickly? I'm always so surprised when I...
This might not be the answer you’re looking for, but I write most of my pieces at night, a few hours before I go to bed, or sometimes even around half an hour before I go to bed. I find that I’m much...
View Article"Every mouth was practice for yours."
“Every mouth was practice for yours.” - 6-Word Story #41
View ArticleYou have inspired me to start writing and I cannot thank you enough for that
I want to reach out and give you a great big hug because writing is such a beautiful thing, and discovering it is one of the best things that ever happened to me. I hope it will be one of the best...
View ArticleI actually love the way how Im slowly learning about your writing habits......
And I love how you’re learning about my writing habits, too. :)I find that noticing things like that about a writer’s work makes one feel closer to them; at least that’s how it works for me.Thank you...
View Articleinstructions for contacting the dead
Seventeen years later, my grandmother still lines her shoes up next to his.And it reminds me of the last scene in Brokeback Mountain where Ennisbuttons Jack’s shirt, which is tucked inside his own.How...
View Articlefinally, a love poem
1. Would it help if I said fruit flies only live for a month, then they diewith bodies waxy as candles and wings that decay into dust?2. You left canker sores in my mouth after you ate all those salty...
View Article"I know it’s over, and it never really began, but in my heart it was so real."
“I know it’s over, and it never really began, but in my heart it was so real.” - The Smiths (via ravenzwart)
View Article"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own...
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.” - Carl Jung
View Article"Got a “do not resuscitate” tattoo."
“Got a “do not resuscitate” tattoo.” - 6-Word Story #42
View Articleeating dinner with an atheist
I once went out for dinner with an atheist, and we didn’t praybefore the meal. Yet before the appetizers came, the breaded mushroomsdipped in garlic oil, his mouth still tasted like holy wine.In bed...
View Articleabortion
Afterward, your father wants to convict you of murder, to charge youas a killer. But what he does not realize is that you are only sixteen,and when you went skinny-dipping three months in, the round...
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My girlfriend cuts herself and I think she's depressed. I don't know how to...
This is what I think you should do, although it may not be right for everyone or for your girlfriend.1. Broach the subject gently. Start off broadly by saying something like, “I want you to know that...
View Article"Books are the most faithful lovers."
“Books are the most faithful lovers.” - 6-Word Story #44
View Articleaddressed to the woman who slept with my boyfriend
I bet he made love urgently, like a train leaving the station.Here, this is every ounce of salt I gathered from his hips with my tongue.Here is every canker sore he implanted in my mouth when we...
View Articlea list of former, current, and future lovers
In January it was the atheist, who refused to pray before mealsand only cried God’s name when we were making love.In February it was a chemist, trying to figure out our various levelsof insolubility to...
View ArticleI am guessing that you do not experience all of the situations that you write...
No, I do not experience all of them. In writing, the speaker and the author of the poem are two separate entities. But I do have firsthand experience of some of the situations I write about, or...
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