fish without faces

when you get home you're really going to be funny about my own mask. i wear it. i'm crazy 'bout this. this mask and i wear it...

from behind your bedroom door in the dark of this too early morning hooting, hissing, drumming the wall with your heels, rolling all your wo...

related: neighborhood killer

P.S. - check out Treeblog's festival of the trees 44 , where this post is linked in the good company of 50 or so others.

I've painted my door with ram's blood and have been hiding out from the flood of confessional new years resolution blog postings, wh...

"It's true," the man said with a melancholy air, his gaze fixed on the flames dancing in the fireplace that winter night; ...

it was the least he could do. the woman had come all this way. flown from John Wayne to Jakarta International. a six hour layover in Aucklan...

It is said that once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a Catholic (according to some, though others said a protestant) who, assailed b...

In the Jungle it is known (or should be known) that there have been an infinity of Christs, B.C. and A.D. Whenever one dies another is immed...

In a far-off country many years ago there lived a Black Sheep. They shot him. A century later, the repentant flock erected an equestrian s...

Sunday, December 24. I said Mass. We set out from the foot of the willow at half past nine in the morning, and halted about two in the after...

"Cattle are very fond of pumpkins; it is pleasant to see what a feast the honest creatures make of them in the barn-yard; they evidentl...

Conrad Gessner Historiae Animalium ( check it out ) 1551 also, for a fabulous little bestiary of creatures--mostly piscine--by Gess...

The Fizzgiggious Fish, who always walked about upon Stilts, because he had no legs. There was an old man in a tree,...