Cross every ‘t’, dot every ‘i’; everything in it’s place. Then I see divergence, and know if for what it is – something that doesn’t belong. Unfortunately at present, there’s too much that doesn’t belong. I see the symptoms, but not the source. It all appears to be interconnected. But I have to dig […]
Destined to be just another clock-punching laborer as were my father and his, I clawed my way into a different reality. Shunning their day to day tedium; I refused to live a life, the monotony of which was soothed only by a beer or something stronger on Friday nights. Odd for someone from the […]
James Bond, Jason Bourne; entertaining extremes of my reality. Like them, I’m trained to get in, get it done and get out – without getting killed. Unless the only other alternative is getting captured. In that case, I know what to do. By necessity, special forces covert operations are lethal – either for the […]
Hidden in plain sight; cloaked in layers of misdirection. Not what she appears to be; but yet is her real self. Deception is her protection. Necessary because of the family she had been born into and the multi-billion dollar empire they had built. Tired of the charade, she envied those with simpler lives. A mask, […]
Men are fascinating. She needed no other entertainment, content to spend entire evenings observing them, conversing with them. They were so uncomprehendingly ‘other’. The more complicated ones were disturbingly good at keeping their thoughts to themselves and she sensed those thoughts roiling behind carefully managed expressions. Just out of reach. At 5 feet 8 inches, […]
Pounding through the damp sand, he closed in on the halfway point of his daily six-mile run. Craving the adrenaline rush that came from punishing physical exertion; he pushed himself to beat his best time. The landmark boulder near the southern end of the beach drew closer and closer…then he was there. Picking up the […]
The ‘glass box’ he had called it when they were together. The twenty-fourth floor condo with views all the way out to the eastern coast; and to the south, the city skyscrapers with their nightly, sparkling display of lights. Now with the windows opaqued, her glass box in the sky was a tomb filled with […]
She wasn’t the one. It’s that simple. His second breakup already, and there were still almost four months before the end of the year. The time span of his relationships was shrinking – as was his patience. The problem was always the same. He hadn’t been enough in love to commit. Now notorious for transitory […]
————–First, a note: ————————- I’ve been honored to be able to share posts from Guest Authors during the past three weeks. I’d like to continue to share voices of published and aspiring writers, poets, and screenwriters that I’m meeting along my journey. Their posts are always available in the GuestAuthors section of my blog, and for […]
November 16, 2010. The day I began the revision outline for the novel that is becoming Sparks. By the very next week I knew that while an outline is a must, it doesn’t give me the level of detail that I need. So I added a storyboard to my revision artifacts, and was still confident […]
