M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
I found the Sterlington, Louisiana Library, a new building only five years old, located a hop, skip and a jump away from where I now… Read More »M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
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Standing at the Pizza Altar
Walmart in Monroe, where I walked through what seemed like a hundred brands of everything and anything before I found, in between the frozen chicken… Read More »Standing at the Pizza Altar
Plane Time
I dreamed a silicon chip looked like an Aztec mask, a great yawning blackness where a mouth should be. A dying vampire awoke in a… Read More »Plane Time
Sterlington or Bust
Traveling 2,000 miles from Oakland, CA to Sterlington, LA, on every highway I chased unbeatable savings, followed a road where free and fast never go… Read More »Sterlington or Bust
To My Dead Namesake
To My Dead Namesake To the dead Lenore who always appears on the same Google page, an interloper who comes up in search results by… Read More »To My Dead Namesake
Jumping Around
We watched news reports about Hurricane Isaac as it churned over Plaquemines Parish and spun toward the oil refineries of Baton Rouge. I flew to San… Read More »Jumping Around
Get Your Dervish On
Missing breakfast, I ventured downstairs to Kybele’s cafe in the hope of scoring coffee, treated to the same plus an amazing fruit platter of halved… Read More »Get Your Dervish On
North Lake Merritt Bench Crone
She sits on a bench wearing a carved tree resin rose black garbage bag filled with acorns, eucalyptus leaves, her bandages of flesh. Whatever she… Read More »North Lake Merritt Bench Crone
Unemployment Statistics
This is a story of two coffee shops that face each other on opposite sides of the street. One is General Arthur’s, named after a… Read More »Unemployment Statistics
The Land of Silence
This is a story about Randy and June, who lived in the Land of Silence. Every day they walked five miles outside the city to… Read More »The Land of Silence