Drabbles: To No Big Surprise/Easter/Shades/Balloons
OnTo No Big Surprise It was a lousy gig, but at this point any gig was worth taking. I had all the usual bullshit dreams of coming to New York and making it as an actor but here I was dressed up…
Everything Changes
OnHis eyes slowly fluttered open and he stared at the ceiling. Here it was, his thirteenth birthday. He hadn’t expected thirteen to feel that different from twelve, but something did feel off and unfamiliar somehow. Arthur stretched his bony arms backwards over…
Drabbles: Animals and More
OnNap She was on the couch devouring a novel, her warm little brown dachshund cuddled up against her. He was nestled in the crook of her arm, sleeping with the peace of the innocent. Occasionally she could feel his stubby legs stirring…
Review: Glean
OnGlean, the seventeenth studio album from They Might Be Giants, somehow manages to be both innovative and familiar, like pulling on your favorite denim jacket and suddenly finding a secret treasure map in the pocket. Its fifteen tracks hold a number of…
Drabbles: But A Whimper/Games/I Do Believe In Fairies, I Do, I Do
OnBut a Whimper This was not what I expected from the game. I would rather play at www.666casino.com for some casino games and win massive jackpots. Where was the brimstone, the lake of fire, the many-headed beast? Instead all we got was…
Drabbles: Writing
OnTypewriter Coffee, strong coffee. Sending vibrations, shockwaves, directly to her brain, which in turn set her fingers flying across the keys of her maroon Smith-Corona, each push resulting in clattering contact with the page, ink as black as the coffee against virginal…
Drabbles: Photographs/Mannequin/Polka Dot/Recurring Dream
OnPhotographs It was the most heartbreaking thing I could imagine: an entire mysterious lifetime being abandoned and then forgotten. I considered my purchase of the ancient suitcase stuffed with faded photographs to be something of a rescue mission. I wouldn’t know the…
Wikipedia Article Word Counts, Compared
OnHistory The Punic Wars: 3,478 words Star Wars: 13,311 words Horatio Nelson: 15,229 words Optimus Prime: 16,469 words Ching Shih (the 19th-century pirate queen who commanded one of the largest pirate fleets in human history): 2,115 words Samus Aran: 4,713…
Drabbles: Plants
OnDandelion Charlotte’s baby spiders. A whirlwind of sand. The field was blanketed with them this spring, so many waiting wishes. She closed her eyes, concentrated fully, sucked in a deep breath and blew, scattering endless spores from the dandelion’s fuzzy crown. She…
New At Unicorn Booty: A Whole Bunch of Stuff!
OnSo I’ve been doing a whole bunch of stuff at UnicornBooty.com lately… so instead of doing a post for each one, I’ll do compilation posts! So yay! Dig it! ‘YOUR LIE IN APRIL’ HAS ALL THE AMAZING MUSIC AND ABUSE OF ‘WHIPLASH’,…