excerpt from Where When It Rains
John F Duffy
I held out my fist, “Midwest love.”
She touched her knuckles to mine.
I held out my fist, “Midwest love.”
She touched her knuckles to mine.
I intimidate men
With my intensity
Please don’t be scared of me
I most certainly am not acting out, I inform Mom via ESP, as she silently bids me to exercise her extolled virtue of impulse control. Across from us at the dinner table looms a leering lech
i turned out alright
The drive to Connecticut was easy. There were hardly any other cars on the road. It was foggy and grey and the highway seemed to stretch out endlessly in front of me. The governor had warned against
“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”
“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”
Feels like the hour before closing at Chuck-E-Cheese.
Love. That’s all I want. That’s all we want. These people. These dogs.
What author’s (dead or alive) persona is aspirational?
I have never found any authors to be aspirational.
The bullies, they made him feel young, alive. He would never admit this to anyone, but he was fairly sure the other teachers, after a glass of wine or three, would concur.
Asking if a computer can do art or science is like asking if a submarine can swim...
“...symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum. Or so I told myself.” – VALIS
“There’s a rose that grows on no man’s land, and it’s wonderful to see” – The Rose of No
i keep love around like a shirt i hope i’ll fit into again someday
Is John Doe a writer, or just a content machine?
I ignored it when he admitted he had cheated on all of his girlfriends, and I ignored it when he became quickly angry over something small. I ignored the red flags
I am always talking about the quality of paying attention and the quality of being willing to go into the unknown, being willing to not know.