The wind whistled through the branches of the park: clear, like thriving tranquility in the Earth's cerebrum. Grassy knolls scattered and sparse compared to the rigid pathways plodding on. I walked atop these somber roads in silence. I knew them like the back of my hand and by the riff of my bike 13 years … Continue reading Pathfinder
Do you ever feel trapped? Trapped in today and that you'll never have that better tomorrow. It will never start because whatever this is, it will never end. Because I feel it. Now. And later on, I know. I am dipped in it so deeply I am it. And whatever I was before is another … Continue reading A Wish for Some Air
If I could tell you one thing about the future, it would be that...It gets worse.But then it gets better.But it gets worse again.Then, good again. A little steady good. It all depends on what you think will last longer.You get tired a lot, I'm sure.It's the carbs. We've got to cut down and we … Continue reading A Present for the Past and Future
Eliza was my favorite patient. She was the elderly matriarch of a big family who all seemed to fit into her tiny hospital room. There she'd lay with her long silvery black hair and her head on two pillows, watching the television but not really looking at it. She had a chummy young grandson who … Continue reading The Intern
"Ah, don't you love it?" "Love what?" "The sound. The music through the breeze." Ohh. That dilapidated Karaoke bar we live next to. "Yeah, sure." "It's nice to have friends in the neighborhood. You shouldn't be so isolated. Right?" The squatted posture of a woman huddled over to my bench, inviting herself in, to put … Continue reading The Abyss
His father was a war veteran who never really did come back home. No one ever did in those days. Always ready for a battle, he either had a gun or a bolo that protected him from every little sound and he never trusted the way the winds moved the lily pads in still waters. … Continue reading The Hustle I Know
The Typewritten Tales 