Author’s Note: This is chapter one of a much longer story I’m working on. It also has adult themes that are potentially triggering, read at your own risk. The Market. The cries of eager merchants, the splash of waves punctuated by the squawks of seagulls, and the conflicting bawdy lyrics of sailor shanties battling theContinue reading “The Duchess”
Author Archives: MJ Shafa
The Physics of Coffee Steam
I don’t remember making coffee.
It’s that kind of morning…
Most stories are lies—even the true ones—but I love them anyway.
The Legacy of Ron Henson
Stay.
Or don’t.
But if you leave, don’t come back.
my Ink my Marrow
I want to write how I paint. When I pick up the paintbrush, there is a canvas and a commitment. A commitment to paint until the canvas disappears. When I wrote my morning pages these past two days, I found it was a little more like that. It doesn’t really matter how well I write.Continue reading “my Ink my Marrow”
The Spiral Effect
I think everyone had the thought at some point that it must be some kind of illusion, like wanderers see in the desert, some collective madness, some group hallucination.
The Bunny Man
My wife warned the kids this morning about the bunny man. We were eating cereal…
Milk of the Mind 