Navigating the nuances… Yet another stop on the memory-train as I revisit my elementary-school years. The first stop can be found here.) NINETEEN Despite me getting my ass whacked for opening my mouth when I shouldn’t have, I soon found myself in a different situation wherein I was […]
Witness for the persecution… Yet another installment in my reflective revisit of my primary-school years. (The first episode can be found here.) EIGHTEEN In my fifth year of elementary servitude, I was placed in the work-calloused hands of one Mrs. Hausam. (For those keeping narrative score, this is […]
What a wonderful swirl… Another station of the hot crossed buns as we journey through my elementary-school years. (You can find the start of said journey here, though a review isn’t really necessary for this stand-alone snippet.) SEVENTEEN This bit might actually belong further back in the timeline, […]
Something twisted this way comes… Note: This is another episode in a multi-part reflection concerning my elementary-school years. (It’s not as boring as it sounds, trust.) You can find the launch point here, if needed. FIFTEEN Eventually, my mother was released from the GTE training boot-camp in Lewisville, […]
Wherein I share more silly-sad memories from my childhood… Note: The following is probably more satisfying if you’ve read the previous installment, found here. (The backward-reflective references will certainly land better.) But I’m hoping this piece can still thrive on its own. Enjoy. SEVEN Uncertainty about the timing […]
The sighs and lows of fumbling our way to whatever we might become… Note: I’m in the midst of prepping the potentials for inclusion in my next short story collection, and one of the candidates is this piece that I have shared here on WordPress before, albeit in […]
From one jolly-bellied man to another… Dear Santa, Hey. I hope you’re doing well. And I apologize for not writing to you for the last 50-odd years, back when I used to scrawl my scribbles on a wide-spaced sheet in my Big Chief tablet, a writing platform […]
“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here…” Upon realizing that I have only posted once this month, way back on the 2nd, I thought it best that I get something out there, lest the few folks who still read my stories actually do abandon hope and never come […]
A bit of peppermint bark… A few things you should be aware of before plunging into this mess… One, hundreds of years ago, I used to do music video reviews. (Don’t laugh, I really did, with a whole website dedicated to such.) I was very invested in this […]
Shame and degradation and a language barrier… Note: This is a continuation of a previous post, one that you don’t really need to review but you can find here if you are a completionist. Suffice it to say that I’m on a cruise, I feel compelled to retrieve […]
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