I gasped as he pulled me close to his chest. His hand held mine firmly and his arm was around my waist tightly. My hand on his shoulder shook a little as my breath caught in my throat. He began turning quickly, pulling me with him. Then he began walking backwards toward the bed with long strides. It was all I could to do keep up with his gliding movements. The entire time we Continue reading →

I can’t seem to stop writing. Too bad most of it’s not for the thesis. I think last night’s francophone poetry reading just stirred up more creativity so I feel I have to write or else I’ll explode. I might put up what I wrote two days ago soon, but for now, here’s a poem I just wrote this morning in response to ideas I got while walking across campus. It’s amazing how a strange, unrelated series Continue reading →

      He woke me from where I had been sleeping with my head in his lap. A few gentle shakes of my shoulder and I was roused enough to extricate myself from against his stomach.

      “Come on, sleepyhead,” he said softly. “Let’s move into the bedroom for this.”

      Blinking a few times, I sat up and rubbed my eyes. He was smiling at me with a playful, Continue reading →

I now have a link to the Nightmare Passages on the Writing page. The four excerpts are all linked the Nightmare Passages page itself which explains a little more fully what the basic plot of the fifth book is, the book in which these exerpts will someday appear as part of a complete whole. Typed up, the excerpts total about twenty-eight pages, the fourth one being the longest as well as the end Continue reading →

I use my keyboard a lot. I don’t just mean for typing up poems or homework or editing my book. I use it for all those spiffy little shortcut commands like Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and the function keys and especially the delete button. I like to use the number pad a lot, and I’m a huge fan of just using the backspace key to go back in webpages. Opera has this little feature where pressing Continue reading →

I really need to keep a pad of paper tacked to the wall near the bed so I can reach it easily while I’m lying there trying to fall asleep and instead keep coming up with great ideas for my novels or for poems. I woke up this morning around four and went to the bathroom, figuring that that was what was waking me up. I just switched out the blue and pink towels for white and green ones, Continue reading →

Yeah, I know that I haven’t finished the first novel or gotten what I do have back up on this page, but I had some ideas for the second novel and wanted to get them down before I forgot. I’ve been working on this section off and on this week when I had time at work, and I finished typing it all up on the computer this morning while Ian and Simon were asleep. Of course, go figure that now that Continue reading →

Mesh bathing suit slips

Into the hot, steaming mug

To brew my Earl Grey.

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Work has been exhausting; I think I’ve mentioned that an awful lot on here. Lately I’ve been going to bed at ten because I’ve been so tired. Yesterday, I was so exhausted I got dizzy and had to go to bed around eight. Yippee, right? I woke up around two when the husband came to bed, waking me from a dream I was having about Tom Hanks and a bunch of other people in a Continue reading →