Soda Machine. {fiction}
'Hang' holds the undisputed title of the greatest devolution of modern language in the context of interpersonal relations, since 'Baby Mama'.
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I’m Taking Back ‘I Love You’. {fiction}
Once upon a time, 'I love you' was reserved for lovers. Sure, that’s the obvious one, but even that doesn’t fit all the time.
Sid and His Five Ascetic Friends. {fiction}
A single raindrop plops into the dark water. Sid isn’t Sid anymore. The moon sets, and Sid lifts his eyes. Venus, the Morning Star, a brilliant flickering ember racing toward the horizon. Speechless, the mystery decloaks and stands naked in the mirror; his question has been answered.
The Desert Princess: A Fable About Formless Love. {fiction}
One day, she returned with a different light in her eyes. She sought out her parents and told them: “Okay, I will marry… I will marry the man who can bring me the sky in a dress, the moon in a necklace, and fire in a pair of shoes."
Open Swim. {fiction}
Thomas was closer now. She could almost feel his breath. She wondered how he had moved so quickly without her noticing.
“They’re beautiful,” Thomas said, “and that’s why. We’re not different. You run here to be quiet. I’m quiet all day because I’m tired of running.”
Charlotte was breathing ...
The Other Tower: Growing Through the Language of Soul. {fiction}
We all know the story of the Tower of Babel. How the greed, the arrogance of human beings who sought to reach the realm of the gods, brought about their own destruction. How a community who once shared one language dissolved into many disparate, constantly warring groups who could not ...
The Tale of the Beautifully Broken Maiden. {fiction}
As much as the fair Maiden stumbled and pushed and fought her way against the discomfort, the Knight would wait ever so patiently for her to surrender to the warmth he could, and wanted to, provide. She feared that kind of love, for she had never experienced such pureness. Such patience, coming ...
Agathos & Frontida. {fiction}
He realized what a mistake he had made, and learned an important lesson: it is wrong to take anything by force. All he had to do was ask; there was no need for trickery.
Away From Home. {fiction}
“Where are you going?” she asks. Mark looks into the darkness in front of him; the bright road lines on the highway are clear only for a few feet in front of the truck before they disappear into the night. “Same place you are,” he answers, and he just keeps driving.
Womb World: A Bedtime Fable For Adults. {fiction}
Somehow, some-when, the world had been reversed, and here she was, alone with the recognition that she, and the rest of civilization, was fastened to the ceiling. If only they could recognize this, together, as a whole, as a human collective, every man, woman, child, forming a thing with fins ...