Somersaults
OnShe careened down the hill, feet over head, feet over head, pulled into a tight ball of grass stains and denim and purple poodle barrettes. She giggled as she came to a gentle stop on the fluffy grass below. She cartwheeled across…
Sad Cold Fact
OnHe leaned against the bus window, his breath visible on the cold glass. It was one of those early November twilights that pricks everyone with its cold but does not yet carry the threat of snow. Across the river, he could see…
Review: Animals Who Want To Be Other Animals (Standard English Dialect Version)
OnCaveat: A request to review KateGoes’ debut album Animals Who Want To Be Other Animals was met with an express stipulation from the band that they would sanction a review only upon the precondition that it be written in a (to quote)…
Review: Animals Who Want To Be Other Animals (Geordie Dialect Version)
OnCaveat: A request to review KateGoes’ debut album Animals Who Want To Be Other Animals was met with an express stipulation from the band that they would sanction a review only upon the precondition that it be written in a (to quote)…
Drabbles: Summer
OnLast Night of Camp It was the last night of camp, and a particularly large bonfire was built for everyone to gather around, toast marshmallows for s’mores and sing camp songs for the last time while the music counselor played her acoustic…
No New Colours
OnThe next time I go looking for my heart’s desire, I won’t look any further than my own backyard. If it’s not there, then I never really lost it to begin with. ~Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz Of course, Samantha Sylvan…
Predestination – Time travel done best
OnIt is so incredibly difficult to make a good film about time travel. The successful ones live forever: Back to the Future, for example, hits everything right, while setting a standard for the genre. Many other time travel films miss the mark, by…
Spring Cleaning
OnHe felt a bit like he was about to be a geologist, digging through sedimentary layers, each a specific epoch. He was rather proud of his usual ability to keep things in order, but the attic was Waldo’s one organizational weakness, the…
Review: Black Mirror
OnMy latest British sci-fi obsession on Netflix Instant is Black Mirror, a dark science-fiction anthology series that recently added its second season to Netflix Instant. Black Mirror is like The Twilight Zone, brought forward to the age of social media and smart…
Drabbles: Celebrations
OnFloat Independence Day. Her dad had woken her up at 9 for the parade, when the Texas air was already humid enough to cut into thick slabs. Now they were sitting on the curb, the backs of their necks sticky with sunscreen,…