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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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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Hidden Cache of Lost Marbles

Where did I put my marbles this weekend?

For starters, Berns and I signed up for NaNoWriMo, which if you haven’t heard about is probably the most intimidating bout of dedicated self-torture through literary explosion I’ve heard of and knowingly, even excitedly, volunteered for!  NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it takes place in [...]

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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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My Boyfriend is a Secret Yo-yo Champion

As we approach our first anniversary, my moondoggy and I step further and further out of the shapeless abyss and into our bodies dancing together.  And in the process of taking form, we ever discover small secrets and delights — hidden not for their shimmering angry brightness, in fact not hidden at all, just uncarefully [...]

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A BF Shaped Hole in the Universe

There have been a lot of comings and goings in the past few weeks, which have permitted little time to compose new posts, but there will be much forthcoming!
A brief suitcase update:
April B-F has just returned from sunny Myrtle Beach, SC and is busily unpacking and reorienting herself for the work week. Rachel B-F, [...]

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