That’s right. You wake up and lying next to you—hogging your pillow—is none other than My Evil Ex! Not your evil ex. My Evil Ex. What is she doing there!? Continue reading
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Sunday Morning Stranger in Your Bed: My Evil Ex
Writing about Travelling
As you may have noticed, I am posting things again on Write with Lightning after the successful conclusion of yet another journey overseas. I’ve travelled a lot, and I am always tempted immediately after a trip to write about it. I had less inclination to write a narrative of my time in Ireland because I already wrote it in my Wanderlust Ireland blog, but I still wanted to write about travel in general and my experiences as a world traveller—that is, the customs I absorb and the people whose lives I visited. I don’t have anything more profound to tell you about the famous sights I’ve seen than anyone else who has also seen them. The Eiffel Tower is brown. The Circus Maximus is a beer bottle littered field. Oscar Wilde’s grave is covered in lipstick kisses. Angkor Wat is old. Bethlehem is a slum. Continue reading
Take a Deep Breath
(You have to read this one out loud)
Take a Deep Breath
.
And speak the memory of a foreign shore
Where pastels spilled on water stroked your back
In slow exhale to revisit once more
The visible eyes in a bedroom of black
Amazed that they loved you before
The lips found the words that they lacked.
Robot Hearts
Yay! Finally, Robot Hearts is available on amazon.com. I have a piece of creative non-fiction (called “Offline Jeckyll and Online Hyde”) published in this anthology of “True and Twisted Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age”. I have been half-hearted at best about sending things out to be published, so this is actually the first time my name will appear in print. Please buy a copy to own my first published work; it might be worth a dollar or two someday at a used bookstore!
This is the blurb from Amazon about the book:
“Love and technology have tied the proverbial knot, for better and for worse. Human interaction has gone hi-tech-it’s now both more immediate and global. Does courtship even still exist in the world of instant-everything? Can a real connection ever be made from afar? Robot Hearts is a collection of true stories from writers navigating the relationship maze of new media. Strange, diverse, heartbreaking and hilarious – each story, at its core, is 100 percent human.”
Buy it here. The cover art of the adorable robot alone is worth the price.
At Yeats’ Grave
What else but a cold eye when all around
Your grave the ravens cry out for their own
Dead, begging their horsemen—the praying flies
On pilgrimage—to take their photographs
And pass by?
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