No Rest For The Wicked

Category: Year of the Wood Horse

  • Caught in the Moment

    Caught in the Moment

    When the waves roll in

    we shall not resist.

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  • The Lumberjack

    The Lumberjack

    There once was a young lumberjack who was very skilled at what he did.  This lumberjack was so strong and so talented that he could cut down nearly twice the number of trees in one day as anyone else and he was widely regarded as the best in the land.  All the girls wanted to get with him and all the boys wanted to be him.  He was happy and proud of himself. He was comfortable in the idea that he would always be at the top of his game.

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  • Home

    Home

    Sometimes things don’t work out.

    No, sometimes they don’t work out at all.

    And, sometimes, it seems heartbreaking.

    Things were not as I thought I wanted them to be.

    As it turns out, I thought wrong…

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  • A Room Down The Hall

    A Room Down The Hall

    I would concede that my descriptions over simplify reality exactly to the extent that they are misinterpreted.

    I had wanted the room with the windows but it didn’t work out that way.  Instead, my plants and I have taken refuge in the walk-in closet where we sit around a bare light bulb trading ghost stories.  While I have finally succeeded in wrecking my marriage, there remains only one way out of this mess and that is to go through it.

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