Sep 30, 2008

9:30.08:105

Due to a terribly unfortunate but amazingly felicitous failure of the human brain, his name, although read Brunt and pronounced Brunt, actually registers in the delicate folds as Blunt.

9:29.08:104

our hero, in fact, eventually named himself after being passed from foster home to foster home due to the terrible reality that he had so little to offer the families so desperate to adopt.

9:28.08:103

As its hands gradually slow down, so too does the time that it keeps and so too does the time of those who are witness to it.

9:27.08:102

Edward Foley is a man of no consequence.

9:26.08:101

Andre Turvinov, the 64 year old letter carrier has been delivering his mail on a daily basis for the last 33 years, even showing up on Sundays with at least one letter he had withheld from saturday's delivery.

09:25:08.100

No truth is revealed, no one is stopped and no motive is given.

09:24.08:99

Light and time and all the things I try to bridge the gap between the nights.

09:23.08:98

...But to be sure before it is over there will be an horrific car crash on I-80 heading north from Miami to Orlando; there will be a downed airliner at jfk at the peak of winter; there will be reunions, expulsions, a blackout and of course . . . a murder.

09:22.08:97

She was wise to it; knowing that when 5 years from now her husband leaves her over the death of their son, he will forever be in these pictures smiling back from a past that will forever remain past.

09:21.08:96

There is a 90% chance that he will respond to the name John and even if it turns out he is someone else you will remain in his good graces as it would be an honor to even have been mistaken for one.

09:20.08:95

The Birth Canal for one is an autobiography of someone else, very much like myself, in which the author, very much like myself, conceives himself.

09:19.08:94

A brief pause as I take a few stifled breathes and tear up these first few lines in a pathetic display of weeping and apologizing for my hubris, begging forgiveness for even attempting this sad exercise.

Sep 18, 2008

09:18.08:93

Yeah well, I feel like myself, whomever that is...

Sep 17, 2008

09:17.08:92

there are only 365 different types of people; I hope you were born on the right day.

09:16.08:91

All this talk of increasing entropy is making me thirsty.

09:15.08:90

If the answer is 'yes', I would have to say I loved once.

09:14.08:89

ah.. but where are they now; those words that roll like ocean swells; eclectic combinations of syllabic bliss...

09:13.08:88

I'd then be forced to create something new or find a new way to create the same old thing.

09:12.08:87

No literary rhymes or riddles; nothing that could possibly interfere with your gaining an immediate understanding of this incredible act that clearly shapes all words that follow and neatly transforms all those that preceded it.

Sep 11, 2008

09:11.08:86

he walks into the restaurant which is completely empty except for the one waitress with the pretty face and long white shiny legs.

Sep 10, 2008

09:10.08:85

And now our hero doesn't know her at all.

09:09.08:84

oh dear reader, what I wouldn't give to have written that chapter for you; describing my leaving the bed to shower and her, now alone with the journal, and now cracking its weathered spine, oblivious to the instant turn her future path will take upon breathing in that first sentence.

Sep 8, 2008

09:08.08:83

Mine are from somewhere external; the shape of the tongue as it tries to feel its way through an unfamiliar sound.

Sep 7, 2008

09:07.08:82

The certainty of proximity and the silence of the thick summernight.

Sep 6, 2008

09:06.08:81

mothermary + time = bang*

*final translated entry of Seth Regent's open log prior to his disappearance.

09:05.08:80

She is a catalyst.

Sep 4, 2008

09:04.08:79

"Remember me," she pleaded, leaving in her wake the familiar smells of crushed autumn leaves and lavender.

Sep 3, 2008

09:03.08:78

Now, in a remarkable feat of coincidence, not unlike another of the famous author's characters, I too have stumbled upon my twin.

Sep 2, 2008

09:02.08:77

And in the long form of the shanks of the evening a life exists born out of time, "Don't underestimate the promises made;" a final salvo as the moon stretched its silver fingers to the west.

Sep 1, 2008

09:01.08:76

Thanks to the broken support on the fold out couch it takes 20 minutes to transform my spine from this new 'u' shape to the s-curve I've come so much to enjoy.