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Perpetually Untitled: The Writing of J. R. Earlbecke
Septic Shock
09/23/2007 06:44 PM
Loving you was disease
a pathetic pathology
a devoted self-destruction
where intellectual suicide
unthinking unwavering agreement
could
conceivably
make you mine.
Loving you was the wound
that never healed
that scars and scabs over
that oozes and weeps
tears of septic blood
where new flesh will not grow
to supplant
what you left behind.
Loving you was toxic territory
pollution
parasitic
destined to die with nowhere to root
and nothing to draw from
and nobody worth [...]
Romance in Eden
09/23/2007 06:36 PM
Could you plant your heart
here
in this
toxic waste garden
thrust your roots
in muddied waters
and
suck the poison in
Could a healthy passion
bloom
inside the confines
of this plot
columbines and caskets
geraniums and graves
hyacinths and headstones
roses and remains
memories and marigolds
deep-seeded
all the same
Could you light a spark
here
and then
weather the explosion
could you bear
the devastation
when
you make love to me
Could a lasting love
blossom
in the flames
of the inferno
violet [...]
If you?re looking for the ?writing help? posts?
06/02/2007 04:06 PM
Sorry! I’ve taken them down from this site for now. Not to worry, though–the reason I’ve taken them down is because I’m starting a new website specifically geared towards helping people with their writing–Scribe Help! There’s nothing there yet, but there will be soon!
Malcolm Hall and the Selkie of Mirror Lake
05/18/2007 12:42 PM
Malcolm Hall and the Selkie of Mirror Lake
by J. R. Earlbecke
This story originally appeared in Myths edited by Rob Knight, published by Torquere Press in October 2004.
The water was slate-gray where it met the stormy sky, stretching out of sight several miles west where it terminated on the opposite shore. Despite the rarity of occasion [...]
Definition: A Feminist Weblog
I have found my webcomic doppelganger
04/30/2008 10:41 AM
So Ampersand (subtle subliminal message: read his comic :D) directed me to Dar: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary and I think I may be in love. I immediately had to sit down and read the whole thing. And here I thought I was the only dyke dating a guy for some reason (and [...]
Are Some Lives More Valuable Than Others?
03/24/2008 09:58 AM
It’s all over the news today that the number of American soldiers dead in Iraq has reached 4,000 after five years. This is certainly tragic in the sense that any needless deaths in violent conflict are tragic.
Forgive me, however, please, for being more concerned with the 80,000 civilian deaths which have occurred thus far in [...]
An Obituary
03/23/2008 10:39 AM
You and I are living in the swollen heart of dead America. We are in the cold clammy hands, the blank stare fixed on every television screen and wondering which box office hit might be our new Messiah; we are every muscle, aching, stiff with rigor mortis, unwilling to relax our failing grip knowing that [...]
Links for 3/18/08
03/18/2008 12:16 PM
Check out Submission and Coffee! They discuss my post I am not damaged: the intersection of queer and kinky on the latest episode, #126.
When Strippers Take Over The Club
A Search For Survivors - a blog by a victim of “attachment therapy”
Woman Left In Cell for 4 Days Without Food or Water
Theocracy Rejected: Former Christian Right [...]
