Selfie Day 36

eat a little differently sometimes

you don’t know what to eat and then yougo out on the town and find a menuthat is going to satisfy you when you want something to eat that is easyyou know it will please thetastebuds and your hungervariety was the thing when youngerbut maybe comfort plays a bigger rolethough being boring isn’t your goal

Selfie Day 35

eighties state

in a mixtape frame of mindfeeling decidely eightieslike being thirty in schoolpretending to be teenjohn hughes scripting medance and cut between scenes every day rainedevery day was school uniform greygetting beaten upand used to knowing morethan the average bear it felt realer than the ninertiesnot xeroxed throwback dreamsthat taste like processed meatwe were quicker on

Selfie Day 33

Shorts

It is interesting when you have an idea for a short story and it starts off as its own thing, and then you end up rolling in some of the larger concepts of your longform fiction. The thing is there are notionally some things that are easier to get away with when dealing with a

Je Ne Sais Quoi

Jean Roar was a half French, half-American drug-dealer who went cold turkey in a fortnight so he could join the French iteration of The Reality Engineers. He had been brought on board as the Paris Integrity Field Engineer, because people had been trying to pick apart the fabric of France using the Eiffel Tower as

Selfie 32

Re-watch

I have not been re-watching movies as much since I got streaming. Who ever has time for anything is the question you ask yourself. But in the way that coming back to a character over and over helps you see more and more about what the character means; depth seems an endless swim with a

hands and ands

photographs can detonatelike smiles in appropriate placesand invites not sentyour special occasion as source of abrasion this is a jousting match on high horseswhich haven’t found their coursesand learned from unreliable sourcesabout foreign unseen forces you withdraw the army of youtranslate the fist to a calm seaand shake away the enmitybecause you want to hold