Some Fun Facts(™) About Anxiety

I experience anxiety.  Rather frequently.  Much more frequently than I like.  Much, much more frequently than I think anyone would ever guess.  It sucks.  It feels like my subconscious is questioning every last damn thing I’ve ever done, am doing, and ever will do.  All at once.  All the time.  And there’s nothing I can do about it.

Good night

As I lay in bed last night, not quite ready to fall asleep but not willing to stay up any later, I listened to the sounds of nighttime silence.  I listened to my pulse surging in my ears. I listened to my heart beating in my chest – as separate from my pulse.

2019 – the Year, or how to keep a writer off the streets

Some might have noticed that I’ve not posted anything for quite a while.  They might also have noticed that what I have written has mostly been short.  Like, short-short.  Like, probably written in an hour or less and posted without any recourse to drafting, contemplation, or even editing.  Yeah.  They’d be correct in thinking that.

Welcome to the Existential Dread Happy Hour!

Welcome, friends, comrades, and lovers – to the Existential Dread Happy Hour!

As our current crop of legally – unethically and immorally – elected overlords say, “If you don’t dread your current and continued existence, we aren’t doing our job!”  So let our Dread Masters know how they’re doing, and officially register your horror today!

Island Dreams #2 & #3

I dream of other islands, on other nights.  One in particular is a regular haunt, and it could not be more different from the first – a desolate, frigid, barren outcropping of rock in the midst of surging, wind-whipped black seas.