More Notes from the Canadian honey jar… #43: August 1, 2017 IDEA for setting: an Ethio soccer game week! (genesis of the story) The street busker, black contortionist in neon green leopard print bodysuit, who could fit himself into a box. Maybe I could use that…? Seems ripe for metaphor-izing. The giant statue of ‘American Gothic’. … Continue reading
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Prompts: June 2017
The days of the wedding. It was almost like a season. A season that will never return. We have nothing else to look back on. The other memories of the relationship belong to the couple alone. The wedding is the shared memory.
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Prompts: May 2017
Breakups: like when your leg reactivates after it has fallen asleep. Who’d think that reawakening/coming alive/the blood returning would be so painful? Continue reading
Prompts: September 2017
More Notes from the Canadian honey jar… #55: Septemer 5, 2017 Certain moments in her life she’ll be eternally proud of: leaving that hotel room before he woke up (ESFNA), tiptoeing down the corridor holding her heels in her hand… That will go down in her personal history as a ‘flash of self-worth’ moment, one of … Continue reading
Prompts: July 2017
More Notes from the Canadian honey jar… #35: July 17, 2017 …she’s the necrophiliac of the group, digs up the corpses of old boyfriends and tries to dance with them (get them to dance with her) again. Rather than start new relationships, that is. Not that she intentionally ‘started’ the previous ones. She ‘fell into’ them, though … Continue reading
Prompt # 7 – books
A part of you still hopes to hear those words. Not those words literally, of course, but the sentiment behind those words, or an approximation of those words. Talk about expecting a person to read your mind! Continue reading
Prompt # 7 – books
A part of you still hopes to hear those words. Not those words literally, of course, but the sentiment behind those words, or an approximation of those words. Talk about expecting a person to read your mind! Continue reading
