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Haiku for an Unfinished Jack-O-Lantern
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We hollowed you outBut never gave you a face.Scary mold did that.
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My Meeting with God
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As I stood at the bus stop this morning, a man walked up to me. He stood a bit too close. Instinctively, I stepped back a few inches. “Listen,” he said, “I am God. I am the Lord God Almighty. Everyone in my life has screwed me. They lie to me and steal from…
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A Proposed Unified Theory of the New … What?
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I told my sister today that a friend of mine is turning forty. “He doesn’t look forty,” she said. “Well,” I said, “forty is the new thirty.” But it can’t be, we decided, because we’re almost thirty. Perhaps forty is the new thirty-five, or maybe thirty-three. We settled on thirty-three, and decided that thirty…
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Happy Valentine’s/V Day
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In honor of this ridiculous, romantic, made-up holiday, I have made up a ridiculous story of romance, told in a series ridiculous haiku. A pink rubber roomthat his people built for himwas his claim to fame♥She had been betrayedand needed to punch the walls.She was seeing red.♥When they met, they knew.It was a rose-colored…
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Finished with NaNo, essays and Vegas (for now)
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I thought I’d post here that I am an official NaNoWriMo 2007 winner. Hooray! I should say, though, that it is really just Novel v1.0 right now. The experience has helped me to better understand the noveling process and I will definitely be adding to, revising and editing my novel, in the hopes that…
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NaNo Haiku
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I’ve been focusing on a different NaNo all month. Since procrastination is key to accomplishment, I wrote a haiku about it for this nano. NaNoWriMo is destroying my November. And this is ten words. Okay, it’s not that bad — I am behind but catching up. Here is my word count widget (better late…


