The Last Goodbye
We talked about the future—the life we weren’t going to have. And although we clung to the fantasy, the dread lingered in the background like a loaded gun on the table. There was no saving this bright thing.
Sky Burton
The Day I Asked Google If Gay Dragons Could Get Pregnant
It started off innocently enough searching for answers to questions like, what’s too steamy? How many thrusts is too many thrusts? Is a metaphorical shower scene safe if nobody gets explicitly rinsed? Does anyone know??
They Called Him a Savior
Louis doesn’t chase fame the way others do.
He doesn’t conform but he doesn’t give you the full version of himself just because you demand it—and that drives some people wild.
Galaxy and Other Bad Influences
His office smelled like cigarettes and leather—surprisingly masculine, possibly intentional. He looked around 42, maybe 45. Tall, graying, with a lean build and a way-too-fitted sweater that hugged his chest and emphasized his arms. He dressed in shades of gray, like a fog bank with opinions.
Chapter 5 - A Series of Approximations
I have never believed in the possibility of exactness. There are no straight lines in nature therefore only by a series of approximations do we perceive truth. — Stan Hall, 1976
Friday, February 4, 1994
A thunderstorm came on suddenly after their arrival but disappeared within the hour, leaving a sky
Bugs on Tape
If I ever live in Costa Rica again—and I might—I will do everything within my non-toxic, cruelty-free power to keep the bugs out of my house. But back in the sadly neglected rental home where this story takes place, that ship had already sailed. And sunk. And been
OMG - The Cleaner Ants of Costa Rica!
I made fresh coffee and perched on the deck rail. Below, a toucan flung bananas into its beak with frat-boy finesse. Capuchin monkeys chattered and wrestled in the trees. The rainforest rolled out before me like a living, breathing quilt. And the ants? Vanished.