Recently Read: Isobel Blackthorn’s A Matter of Latitude This review was requested by Isobel Blackthorne. She actually requested that I post a review on Amazon, but when I tried to do exactly that, Amazon told me I couldn’t review anything unless I spent 50$ on their site. Unfortunate. Still, I promised Isobel Blackthorne that I would …
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Apologetic Poems: Poems Written Under Duress. To begin, David Lir’s got himself a crazy sense of humor, the likes of which could cure cancer or bring world peace if only more people were aware of it. The masses run around like blind mice in mazes, missing the key turns that would bring them to …
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The secret to staying young is always telling the time by hours, minutes, and even seconds. Think about it. Give a child a digital watch and then ask them the time, what do they do? They tell you the hour, the minutes, and then the seconds as they tick by, “…forty-three, forty-four, forty-five…” Middle-aged people …
It would have been an ordinary day visiting the beach, but when we got there, the ocean was gone. Our first question was, “When did this happen?” and then, “How did we not hear about this?” and soon after, “Where did it all go?” Nothing that enormous can go away without notice. We knew it. …
Smell hamburger? It’s your own leg. Remember the accident? No? You’re still in shock. See the dead man over there? He was in the accident too. You didn’t kill him. Don’t worry about that. You’re not guilty of murder. You wouldn’t need that kind of trauma anyway. Losing the leg is enough. Do you remember …
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