I recently heard a sermon about ‘how to avoid contentment’. It was part of an otherwise-enlightening series about ‘how to mess up’ in life. In…
read moreWelcome to 2017 America, where the melting pot on which it was founded burns blood black and boils over with vitriol. When James Madison, a…
read moreDisclaimer: Contains mature themes. “You’re old enough to be my father.” Edward Cain slugged a whiskey shot and set the glass on a nightstand,…
read moreThese barren fields, wolf-grey coats of bark and dust, coarse lines bleeding trails, idle in stillness, parsed, perched, widows of breath, brittle as ash in wind…
read moreBlackwater rinses marrow from bone, skeletons wash ashore: backbones, ribcages, rubber cartilage calcified with salt, jellied with flesh, imprinted on wet sand — carrion for…
read moreDo you hear that? It’s a thunderclap of emotion, a seismic reverberation of anger and sadness that beats like a holy staff on sacred ground.…
read moreThere is no sledgehammer God — every rational being knows that. We can appropriate certain things to the Divine; we can justify answered prayer. In…
read moreMemories are like stars speckled across the night sky. Rarely linear in form, they’re merely loosely connected dots in the synapses of the brain. They…
read moreThis is the point where trying to hold things together for everyone else makes me fall apart. Fractal. It’s not supposed to be like this.…
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