like any other drug

I know I’ll be coming down from this high any minute now; my bones will turn to glass, my head to cement and I will be motivated to go find a new job to quit.

posted June 24, 2011   ·   no comments yet...

so many websites out there-

targeting me in my pitiful job search, asking me to check boxes of skills, telling me what i really ought to do for a living, mocking my long term career objective of sitting behind a desk, in a chair with arms and wheels, being the evil gatekeeper of licensed knife wielding egos of grandeure.

posted January 13, 2011   ·   no comments yet...

the reformation.

as she approached forty Lucy gave up smoking cigarettes and weed, started popping pills only as they were prescribed, doing the speed limit wherever she went, and limiting her use of her favorite transitory verb f*ck to only special occasions.

posted September 18, 2010   ·   no comments yet...

a fine damn cause

Lucy set the tip cup outside the window discreetly behind the ‘copay due at time of service’ sign, and required each timid patient who muttered conspiratorily, ‘this may be a stupid question’ to drop a quarter in the cup before she would answer; later she would put every quarter into the box at her local general store marked ‘for literacy’ and laugh heartily at her own secret irony.

posted September 18, 2010   ·   no comments yet...

Lucy pressed her luck…

several times that day, but when she realized the lighter in her new car actually worked she kept her eyes riveted to the sky, scanning for meteors and cows, well into the next morning.

posted May 22, 2010   ·   no comments yet...

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