You could set a clock by him, he climbs down from his chair and nuzzles me. Okay, I say, and grab my robe as I lurch toward the back door. Five o’clock. The alarm will ring in half an hour. […]
Continue reading »A Great Hunger
-Prince Feisal-: The English have a great hunger for desolate places. ~ Lawrence of Arabia A great hunger. That’s compulsion, whether eating (having nothing to do with nutritional needs) or drinking, gambling or drugging, shopping or controlling…compulsion, the great hunger. […]
Continue reading »Self-Flagellation
I declare myself hopeless, a failure, unable to function. I don’t want to rise from this chair, to move into society, to do chores, to see people, to fit into society. I look back to the past, to the good, […]
Continue reading »After
After the tree, the gathering, the love. After the rekindling of memories, reignition of rivalries, arousing of animosity, remembrance of wrongs. After the gluttony, the overindulgence, the use of alcohol or substances to make tolerable, after the attempts to bury […]
Continue reading »The Innkeeper’s Christmas Eve
Twas the night before Christmas, and all up and down there were bone-weary travelers in Bethlehem town. The stern edict had gone out from Caesar himself, each man should return now to pay from his wealth. To their ancestors’ hometown they each must now go […]
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