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Tag Archives: Love
Book Review: Stoner by John Williams
When I was a kid I use to walk through graveyards. I’d search for the oldest headstones and longest lived lying beneath them. I remember running charcoal across crumbled paper in order to decipher those too weathered and beaten to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged american literature, classics, college, Education, Existentialism, humanity, John Edward Williams, John Williams, literary fiction, Love, perfection, Stoner, World War I
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The Answers You Can Never Know
She crosses in front of him, some part of him compelled to follow. After several steps she stops, crouching down like an inquisitive child. She picks something up from the ground. She examines it, the flower blossoming in her hand as … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged a conversation with death, A novel someday, answers, beauty, Dreams Away, existence, galaxies, happiness, light, Love, planets, truth, universe
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The Only Part of You He Had
Eight months. Eight months she’d been gone. Buried under a litany of nightmares and choked down tears. You spend enough time crying eventually you to hide it, let it out it bursts, little moments of weakness as the new status … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction
Tagged cancer, Loss, Love, mourning, opening old wounds, pain, post-it note, rediscovery, sexybutt, suicide, tears
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Book Review: The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
I don’t read contemporary literature anywhere near the time of their initial release. They are read ‘contemporarily’, yes, but usually years away from their initial release and, forgive me, often by people who don’t care, don’t need, my readership … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged alcohol, Animation, art, Artists, Contemporary, creative process, inspiration, Kayla Rae Whitaker, Love, relationships, substance abuse, The Animators
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Caustic Little Fairytales
We grew up with them, we all did. These caustic little fairytales. The idea that life, love, and happiness were not only possible, but perfect. That every piece of misery was only a building block to something better. Like a … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Non-fiction
Tagged comfort, dissatisfaction, dread, Fairytales, finding meaning, happiness, Life, Love, misery, soul
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Ruminations #4
In which I contemplate the future in the crystal orbs of my daughters eyes. Continue reading
Posted in Essay, Something Else
Tagged christmas, fatherhood, growing up, holidays, Life, Love, parenthood, protect, ruminations, smiles, tears, true love, truth
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Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
This is a dystopia that has refused the name. A place where haunter and haunted pass in the street, eyes locked to asphalt, refusing to recognize one another. There is no escape, no grand revolution to see things coolly on … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged british literature, dystopia, friendship, horror, humanity, kazuo ishiguro, literary fiction, Love, Never let me go, sci-fi, science fiction
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Alpha & Omega
“I love her and that is the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Posted in Something Else
Tagged 42, baby, beginning, birthday, end, everything, fatherhood, first birthday, joy, Life, Love, meaning, parenthood
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Book Review: A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
There are a great many things to hate about high society and I’m not just saying that as a plebeian proletariat. From decadence to the disconnect they seem to feel with the rest of humanity, there is no shortage of … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Review
Tagged a woman of no importance, british literature, classics, drama, high society, humor, Love, oscar wilde, play, plays, sexual power, society
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Book Review: Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
Have you ever had someone you love scream over while you try to explain away something a gossipy middle-aged women told her in your drawing room? No? Me neither. In fact, if someone that claimed to love me refused to … Continue reading
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Tagged classics, drama, heartache, humor, Lady Windermere's Fan, Love, oscar wilde, paradox, play, plays, romance, truth
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A Land of Rum and Writing 