Huh?
Welcome to the inside of my mind. Sorry for the clutter. While in the realm of nonfiction, let me just say memory is a lousy filer. To the best of my recollections the following actually happened. Hopefully none of it will hold up in court, being hearsay from an unreliable witness.
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The Horse’s Ass
A fable Invasive species have been upsetting ecosystems all over the world [file under ‘duh’]. It’s the consternation of environmentalists & those whose livelihoods depend upon certain ecosystems sans invasion. Some of these species arrived by accident, some blithely brought by well-meaning humans.’ The road to hell…’ The Himalayan Blackberry was introduced to the Pacific…
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Observer Defect
It was very thoughtful of those working in quantum mechanics to name some quarks after my primary mental states: up, down, & strange. Those wee particles within the nucleus of an atom hold no real fascination for me otherwise. I’m not a particle physicist. No matter how many times I’ve read about quarks, I remember…
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Midnight’s Wolven*
You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight & sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead– your next stop, the Magical Realism Zone. She named herself Traveler because it was apt. Ironic, because she didn’t travel much…
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The Shadowpuppets
[My apology to Stephen King, though he reimagined a jump-rope jingle based on miners folklore.] The classic horror movie trailer to the following story goes like this: COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU Little girls skipping rope, chanting: “Late last year & the year before Shadowpuppets Shadowpuppets tapping on my door Want to stay home,…
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Bonfire of the Profanities
Well, fuck. Time once again to thin the herd. Though I don’t consider myself particularly foulmouthed in person, my journals are sprinkled liberally with salty language. As with anyone, some of my ideas have a stench about them. The good stuff has already been gleaned & polished. It’s the scat that’s left. I wish that…
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Peninsula Gothic
Let me bore you with some ruins. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only surviving structure of the original 7 Wonders of the World, but it shares a common element with the lost 6. Then a new 7 Wonders list was made, including Petra, Machu Picchu, Great Wall of China, etc. (Angkor Wat was…
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