Scenes Thursdays
Guan-yin came home from Black Belt World in tears. She had been training for three months – enough time to get a black belt, according to the sensei that her father paid $120 a month to. A tall blond white man, Sensei George kept assuming Guan-yin was Japanese, kept asking her how “her people” [...]
Scenes Thursdays:
When Wal-Mart put in the world’s largest kids’ ball pit, Johnny was thrilled, but it made my breath catch in my throat.
Never mind the fact that as a doctor, she feared what germs and diseases lurked in such places. It was the other things that lived there. As a child, she had spent [...]
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I went out to visit the prayer grove yesterday. It used to be a prayer tree, a holy yew where we hung our wishes to the gods. But ever since the local youth were conscripted to go to battle, the tree has expanded to the grove that surrounds it. I saw the shaman there, [...]
Scenes Thursdays
The shattered businessman sat at his desk, his head hung low. His fool stood in the doorway, not called upon, but entering unbidden as always.
The fool goes where other’s cannot. But at the end of the day, they are still fools.
“I recommend saying that you’re taking time to spend with your family,” Orson [...]
(I know i’m sometimes late on these. Feeling sluggish lately. Sorry.)
Scenes Thursdays
Gladys saw the guest struggle into the hotel and weighed her options. The woman was small, about 115 pounds and five feet tall. She had a fine Chinese face, but a set to her jaw that implied that she was quite used to people [...]
Scenes Thursdays
They called me the other day. You know. Them. They from “that’s what they say.” I had applied to join “some people”, but They said I’d be better suited to join them.
It’s hard work, being part of Them. We (They) meet in a large room with a black oak table and doughnuts are [...]
Scenes Thursdays
They mocked her. Yes they did, they mocked the career woman, college-educated brilliant scientist when she decided to care for the home. They didn’t know. They couldn’t understand.
Some could. The other women who did the same. They all had the same infestation too.
Mildew and dust bunnies were the masks that covered the [...]
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(Some of this is true.)
I never take into account how much that can go wrong in the block I walk to pick up my child from the bus stop. I always try to remember to take with me: my dog, a weapon, a camera, and my phone. When I forget these things, I often [...]
Travel slowing me down-
Pie week continues.
Scenes Thursdays:
Cherry pie is oft considered – inappropriately – to be the best pie filling to smear on your lover before licking it off in sex play. But the fruit pies tend to drip and then there’s the mess on the sheets. For me, nothing beats a good custard pie, [...]
