shell game

My dream last night was forgotten until something I saw pulled it from the recesses of my mind.  I was almost home.  One more step would land me on the sidewalk in front of my house but my foot stopped in mid stride and set back down in the street on a patch of wet … Continue reading shell game

less sick…

I woke up this morning and lay very very still because it occurred to me that I wasn't coughing.  That would be the first time in 3 weeks that I was able to say that.  I reached slowly and carefully for my iphone and still no coughing. I was afraid to move.  I thought that … Continue reading less sick…

my belt…

In 1977 in a 7th grade shop class a boy made a leather belt.  It was a popular color of light golden brown.  On it he pressed stars and music notes and a simple sentence...  a sentence that could have kept him from getting laid ever.  Ever. "SCIENCE FICTION IS THE GREATEST" And then I … Continue reading my belt…