This seems backward
The public health region has begun, in the recent past, to provide vaccines for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) (or would that be ‘provide vaccines against HPV’?). HPV is a communicable…
cenobyte
Happy-making
The Captain phoned me at work today. I saw the number come up on my phone, and so I answered with: “WHO IS THIS?” He said, after a brief pause:…
Things I Do Not Need
So. I am having two Minor Conflicts. One: One set of Grandparents seems to think The Captain needs a cell phone. I do not want The Captain to have…
You might read it here, but what does that mean?
So, there’s this advert that’s run in at least one, possibly more Canadian newspapers. I’m not interested in posting the advert, but I’ll link to an article that talks about…
Economist
Corded muscles and a tight-lipped grin “I’m listening,” says the set of your shoulders. Oh, it’s not listening I’d like from you. My tongue slipping along your jawline unbuttoning, unbuckling,…
Deeper
There was vibration a gentle buzz from head to toe when I heard your voice when I felt your arms around me It was at once more than lust and…
It’s just a thing I don’t do
You know when the phone rings and you answer the phone and there’s nobody on the phone so you say ‘hello?’ and wait for someone to answer you on the…
Brief Lies
This has been a fairly difficult week. All I can say is thank Christ it was really bloody nice outside. I woke up this morning to the snow sky and…
More Than This
The man I spent the night in bed beside is a teacher. We were in a hotel in a town a few hours from home, and it’s not like anyone…
Naughty
His Nibs and I went to a Store yesterday for the purpose of purchasing a Bed. “Dear God, cenobyte,” you are thinking, “have you no BED!? How can you *live*…
Happy Birthday
Today is your sixty-fifth birthday. Time for the government to start paying you back, ha-ha. I would have brought you a cake in the shape of enormous breasts, and joked…
Dark Sky
Last night the sky was swollen with burgeoning tornadoes at our lakefront cottage on a hill the front room was full of dust-covered videos and you weren’t there at all.…
Aw, shit.
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”…
It’s Been 21 Years, One Month, Three Weeks, and One Day
Roughly, or thereabouts, I figure, since I last saw you. Of course, I am forgetting the time I saw you in passing at the top of the escalators in Place…
Angles and Corners
These boys are all skinny legs and large, awkward feet. You see the way they stand and listen to their coaches, and you see glimpses of the men they will…
Summer Lies
Do you remember sitting on the couch in the house off Broadway the summer that everything seemed so unreal, the day you told me you were falling in love with…
This Thing Can’t Go On
My friend PoMoAnachro is doing this Steampunk LARP. Costumes are an awful lot of fun, and if you can get enough people serious about costuming, the venue isn’t necessarily as…
I had a Very Witty Title and Forboutagot it
For a while this morning, everything was normal. The sandy-haired gentleman sat at his kitchen table with a coffee and a bagel and seven or eight daily newspapers from all…
10th August fast approaches
Yours Truly has been invited to be one of the “Writers Reading” in Victoria Partk at Noon, I think, on Wednesday, 10th August. Which reminds me, I have to get…
What are you working on?
I’m trying to invent a LARP system.