Fly tying. Spell casting. Arm breaking. Cast forming. Writing your name on a friend’s cast would be “cast spelling.” Writing your name under a table would be covert vandalism. Writing your name in the snow is whizzing. Writing your name in a tree is woodcarving. Writing your name in clouds is skywriting. Writing with paper …
Author Archives: Kurt Gailey
In Plain Sight
With stereo vision you can find a lot of things. Do you have anyone in your life who loses things? Or do you have anyone in your life who asks you endlessly where things are? I love this game and hate it at the same time. Especially when it involves the refrigerator. It seems like …
Star Scene/Scar Scene
INT.—DAY—Small Apartment It was a dark and stormy night. The umbrellas were out but it didn’t matter because he was smoking in the shower. If lunch didn’t come any earlier, he might shave with a ham sandwich. Extra mustard. His palms were sweaty in anticipation of the noon train. Something was due on that train …
Doctor Visit
So many negative emotions roll through your heart and brain when you realize it’s time to go to the doctor that it’s a wonder any of us are healthy at all. Pre-visit anxiety is enough to start you down the path to having a coronary, or an aneurysm. Which, of course, would cause you to …
Big Mouth
Do you ever get caught up in a conversation and your thoughts turn to escape? Do you wish you could change channels? Do you wish you could switch venues? There are talkers and there are talkers. Some are brief to the point of salvation, and others are finding new subjects from every bit of stuff, …
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