2.2 // Green-gilt bar

Another older bit of writing. She leaned back languidly and twisted herself a little more comfortably, the last few golden drops of scotch sliding around the rocks. Her eyes wandered over the room, covered in plush green velvet and gilded in gold wherever the proprietor saw fit to gild. The place was dark and quiet [...]

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2.1 // February run

This is actually from last February, but I never posted it. The weather lies… oh, it lies. I walk down the driveway and hit the asphalt running, heading toward the dirt roads I plan to run on. They form a lattice, a grid of road handy for running. The air is surprisingly warm on my [...]

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Talk Wordy blip: pirates

Read this and felt the need to share… for more witty/insightful/education repertoire, check out Brian White’s blog Talk Wordy To Me. For grammar geeks and word nerds alike. Ars Technica had a story yesterday that said that copyright holders (mainly the music and movie industries) are reconsidering their preference for using the word “pirate” to describe people [...]

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1.29 // perk vs. perq

Grammar geek-out time! I’m one of those grammar nazis – NOT nazi’s, mind you, *shudder – but I also have a strong affinity for words. Good words. Strong words, descriptive words, accurate words. My grandparents (a physical chemist and English professor, respectively) pointed out over Christmas break that, compared to other languages, English is extremely [...]

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1.25 // Insomnia?

[from last night's post-midnight musings...] There is something undeniably romantic – albeit a tad irksome – about one’s inability to fall asleep, particularly if it is raining, which it is. You lay in bed, eyes wide open to the dark nothingness – which is in reality a whole world unto itself – or fitfully closed [...]

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12.14 // birthday Quote du Jour

“I was never that girl, never the one who wasted hours and days pining away for that unattainable model of male perfection… I was focused, intent. Then I met Andrew and it was like… my world was turned inside-out with sudden, immense ferocity and I found myself to be that girl. The hopelessly in love [...]

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11.30 // NaNoWriMo

…and it’s over! (Although I did finish a few days ago, technically, my novel is nowhere near finished. At the moment, it’s just over 100 pages/about 58,000 words… I’m thinking it’ll be over 400 pages by the end… hopefully…) And the manuscript (a few days ago, at just over 80 pages): …and now I’m getting [...]

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9.12 // Henry Louis Mencken

Today in 1880, the writer Henry Louis Mencken was born. He wrote William Harding’s inaugrual address; he said this about Harding’s writing: nt “[the president] writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me [...]

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flash fiction // henna girl

Once upon a time there was a girl. She had good grades, good friends, a good boyfriend, a good job, and was going to a good college. For the longest time, she’d known what she was going to do, and when, and how it would pan out. She knew the long run. Then one day, [...]

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fiction // the beach house [short edition]

the beach house [short edition] It had been a day like today, a serene one, shattered by her arrival: wonderfully sudden and intense and violent. The rowboat had been the same, the grey waves choppy, the shore unchanged; yet since that day, his life was a different one. She had come in the morning, on [...]

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