Why We Don’t Date: An Anti-Polemic

This is how it should be:
Because the cosmos is lit with magic and full of wonderment, it contains inside it all the reactive elements needed to create new universes inside itself.  With the flit of a small set of wings, so much can be changed, created, dismantled, renewed, and restructured.  In the merest of moments, [...]

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Cold December Flew Away

Batted my eyelashes and one year slipped away into the next.  All that was left of the yesteryear was smudged eyeliner on my cheek and this charcoaled best of 2008:
Jetset’s TOP 3 ALBUMS
1. – Ra Ra Riot “The Rhumb Line” “Too Too Fast” by Ra Ra Riot
2. – Fire on Fire “The Orchard” “Hartford Blues” [...]

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On Searching for a More Apt Word Than FAIL: A Substitute and Not a Synonym

Time is up.
NaNoWriMo has ended.
December 1st has passed.
We survived.
And this, this is the story of survival.

Survival begins much uglier than you might think.
It begins with guilt and shame and a desire to fade into the white and the flurry of fragments — of self and storyline and understanding.
The story is a blurred and spinning motion [...]

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Are we still unfledged?

The guillemot (a European bird much like Bernsie, herself) hurls itself off a precipice before it is fully fledged, not as a test of will or wings, but as an instinctual following act just a few steps behind its mother.  And the fledgling guillemot doesn’t stick the landing.  It doesn’t even fly.  The guillemot feels [...]

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