Writers Anonymous I'm sorry, but I consider my writing anonymous and don't care to be reminded just how wrong I am. I am keenly aware that I use pictures and...
Craniosynostosis I arrive at my mother's house. She is at her computer and she asks if I've heard about Aydan, my new nephew. He is only a few months old, born...
I have decided that I am going to mail out my serialized and much improved novel, We Shadows, a chapter at a day through November (and most of December). So...
Slouching Towards Atlantis I look into my rearview mirror at Melanie <http://www.xenex.org/chara/melaniek.php> knitting in the backseat and then over to...
I'm a Believer You'd be like Heaven to touchI didn't used to much care about the religion of the person kissing me--as long as their faith didn't preclude more...
Sister To Sleep I pull Hannah <http://www.xenex.org/chara/hannahh.php> against me and whisper, "I love you." I hold her a little tighter and can't squeeze the...
Knowing Everyone "Your knowing everyone is going to eventually get you in trouble," Hannah <http://www.xenex.org/chara/hannahh.php> insists over her order of...
Something Borrowed Emily <http://www.xenex.org/chara/emilys.php> says -- in that needlessly suspenseful way that I loathe in others but occasionally use...
Fear and Trembling in the Hundred Acre Wood As the more literarily aware of you may know, the estate of A.A. Milne has given permission for the creation of a...
Possible Futures Everyone leaves. Wait long enough and everyone will go, and you let them if you really love them. You have to. Most don't come back, which the...
Woodstock 09 Perhaps the problem is that I would not be conceived for another ten years when it happened. While it is an event that has been shoved down our ...
Poly Wants a Crack-Up I was never a fan of the concept of polyamory. I understood that people did it, spent time around those who did (and those who considered...
Loving Kindness I try to keep compassion in my heart. I have no idea what this woman is going through, what door in her life closed to make her what she is...
Diet Mountain Dew I signed up for the BzzAgent <http://www.bzzagent.com/> campaign for Diet Mountain Dew <http://www.mountaindew.com/> assuming I would soon...
Paradise Found Stephanie and Dan Also, Dan is a Communist revolutionary <http://www.xenex.org/chara/dank.php> Dan Kessler and Stephanie took the train from the...
Waiting for the Path Melanie She hears your sins Every morning, I talk with Melanie <http://www.xenex.org/chara/melaniek.php> while I have a light breakfast...
Dragonslaying Grr "Your plebeian pedestrianization should vociferously annul any preceding inequity in my deportment, bitch." I hate with a startling passion...
I Want to Believe Alien More of a red than a Gray I was a believer when I was young. When I was young enough to have already read through all the books my...
Xen I'm pretty! I remember a sleepover with three of my cousins, two archetypical boys and a tomboy. Even when I was four or so, I felt somehow different, and...
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