Tales from my head
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John and Paul were right. All you need is love. The Beatles, not the apostles. To know unbounded love must be heavenly. Love that does not limit, inhibit, or prescribe. Why do we struggle so with it? When we love someone, we want to change them, make them something else! This is not love, but…
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I have never fully known how to just ‘be’. There was always someone to tell me I was doing it ‘wrong’. Later in life, I realized they were also in the same boat, and part of their journey was to find fault in others, allowing them to procrastinate on their own development. Most outgrow this.…
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The world has gone to shit. Ok, not the world. It is still the same rock spinning through space. People have gone to shit. Sally knows this because she watches the news. Some television networks will demonize a particular political group, while others retaliate and attack the political group that their competition seems to support.…
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Things that rhyme with birth;Worth,Earth,Girth,Berth,Dearth, Mirth.School!Cruel, Pool,Rule,Tool,Drool,Fool.Work!Clerk,Smirk,Perk,Shirk, Schlock, Buttock.Life!Wife,Fife,Strife,Connive, Survive, Knife.Death!Breath,Health,Wealth,Meth, Depth, Expireth.
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The cow did not look right. It labored to walk. The extra limbs that grew out of its sides seem to move on their own accord, getting in the way. Sue saw the cow stumble past the kitchen window. ‘There’s a break in the fence again, ‘ she says over her shoulder before resuming her…
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No one would have believed that in the last days of 2025, humans were being watched by envious eyes, plotting an assault to claim Earth for itself. If the Christian Bible is to be believed, god created humans in his own image. This must mean that god is a selfish, self-absorbed, homicidal maniac that jumps…
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“I’ve never seen anything like this before”, Billy expertly spits dip-slop at a fly, knocking it down. “Looks all wrong”, he continues, poking at the thing they found with a dirty boot. He does not always spit accurately, and his shoes and clothing are stained as evidence. “Looks like a picture my sister’s kid once…
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The intersection of Murray and Moore streets is a choke point. On each of its four corners, there are popular businesses. On the northeast corner, there is a Chick-fil-A, and as you look clockwise, there is a Seven-brew, a Walmart neighborhood market, and a large liquor store on the other corners. The roads are extra…
Tales from my head 