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The Storytellers

We are creatures of flesh and bone sinew and marrow biochemical machines that have evolved to live to breathe to eat to reproduce to live on in the next generation. But we are also composed of stories...

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Pain

Pain. Sometimes pain comes unexpected an unwelcome guest at a dinner party that you didn’t know you were throwing. Other times it comes by engraved invitation the slice of a thin blade across smooth...

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Sanctuary

When someone stabs me with a metaphorical dagger I feel it all too literally. My chest tightens strangling my lungs and leaving me gasping for air in vain. My pulse quickens and my heart starts...

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Hard Change

The apocalypse will not be televised. The little glowing rectangles that frame our world carry on at length about the spring storms tearing cities limb from limb and the summer sun scorching endless...

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The Rains of Samhain

The sting of freezing rain on naked flesh awakens the heat of the blood. The jet black clouds of a moonless sky reveal the light of a flickering flame. The whisper of the wet wind through the crinkle...

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Masters of Oil

[Original Lyrics by Bob Dylan]Come you masters of oil You that drill for the crude You that tap veins of coal You that frack all the world You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just...

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Together

We saw a cloud shaped like a heart. That doesn’t happen in real life does it? We were walking hand in hand beneath a clear blue sky walking among the trees among the fiery bursts of red. orange. yellow...

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Alchemy

Lead into gold, lead into gold, lead into gold. They say I’m too old to believe in magic but I say it’s tragic that they only believe in what they see when in reality the only constant is change. Isn’t...

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Twilight of Necropolis

Twilight. It's not just a time of day it's a state of mind between the worlds of waking and sleeping. And in this stately State of Twilight shrouded in a fog of electric concrete lies the City of...

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Here

It can’t happen here. Not here not now not in this place this place where I’ve spent so many seasons and found so many reasons to live.This land is my body this clay soil that feeds the seeds that grow...

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