This is number fifteen of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine). WE ARE HALF WAY THERE!!!!! Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except for…
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My writing – dribbles, drabbles, odds and ends, bits and bobs.
Dear Brain
Dear Brain, I am healthy, have a good job, two degrees, a healthy and loving romantic relationship, and am writing almost regularly – could you please stop trying to convince me that I am a failure or that I am doing something wrong? I really would just like to enjoy feeling happy. Sincerely, Anxious Twenty-Something…
#16 – Martyr Complexes are Not Sexy
This is number sixteen of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine). Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except for number one because that’s…
Fan
He is fanning himself with one of those cheap Japanese fans. It has a black plastic frame and stiff black fabric with white flowers printed on it. He is fanning himself at a pace perhaps two notches below “furiously.” His face is illuminated by the iPad in his lap, small beads of perspiration shining underneath…
Dearest Most Important Inspiration
Dearest Most Important Inspiration, Why do you always come to me right when I am about to fall asleep or in the middle of the night on my way back from the bathroom? You must know that I will not remember you in the morning and that I don’t want to write you down because then…
Observation Found in Ovid
Grey t-shirt, hands tucked into loose shorts, a backpack between his shins. He has strong legs. Tight calves, his weight balanced on the balls of his feet ready to spring. Dark close cut hair and impenetrable shades blocking his eyes from sight.
Hey Sick of Getting Sick
Hey Sick of Getting Sick, How about all you dust motes on the history timeline of the Earth stop maiming the planet and then we’ll consider picking a “damn season?” Without Amusement, Weather and Earth (Weather’s big sister)
NYC Monday Morning
They have the shell-shocked, thousand-yard, dead-eyed stare of war survivors, but it’s really just NYC on a Monday morning. They stare vacantly at the opposite wall and he has his hand on her thigh. After a few minutes she regains some awareness and starts aimlessly looking around the train.
Dear Weather
Dear Weather, Could you please stop fucking around and just pick a damn season? Sincerely, Sick of Getting Sick
#17 – Supers are SO Paranoid
This is number seventeen of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine). Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except for number one because that’s my…
Chipper Giant
When he initially got on the train he stood next to me and even with my shoulders back, standing as tall as I could, the top of my head barely made it to the middle of is bicep. As soon as the seat behind us opened up he all but flung himself into it and…
Little Gentian 