[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

I am at the Ohio Theatre in downtown Columbus with wife and kids in tow to see the Nutcracker. The lights fall and t...

Seeking the solid ground of my own understanding, only to find it is illusory, that it shifts and shakes, an earthquake of seen and...

The cell was almost cozy, the bed narrow, but soft. He had made a bookshelf of the high window ledge and learned to read by the lig...

The tree is up and we have completely covered it in ornaments with no room for garland or tinsel.  Each ornament brings with it a stron...

When the earth opened up  to swallow him whole he refused to fall, a stubborn astronaught  floating over the abyss yawning...

Demon King of the Dog Clowns do not visit us in our bed Necromancer of Nightmare Towns do not visit us, dead or undead Deep Dreame...

I hid from the war behind the walls of an Army compound in Northern Iraq, hearing occasional gunfire, explosions, and the constant...

When the storm comes, the head becomes a cave in which to hide from danger. When the storm comes, the world closes off and we ...

He was a murderer from the beginning,  and he will kill your body and soul if he can.   Do not partner with him or those with him. Re...

We visited our optometrist's office this weekend where there is a children's nook full of books and toys.  Anya and Elias dec...

In the Autumn years full of hopes and fears when the heart grows bold with the ease of tears.

Solar Sam beamed in the full length mirror, turning left then right to capture his appearance from different angles.  He was wearing a linen...

I hear a mermaid and a mermaid hears me. She tells me her secrets of the deep blue sea. I tell her of my life with a brother and a...

An illusion of endless time in the corporal self. A delusion of disconnection from those with you in hell. Such a grace for the b...

I remember him as an awkward elementary school kid with buggy eyes and a slack face that quickly corrected when he smiled.  It was 1980...

So much beauty fills the earth but all of it tinged by sadness as if it needs to puncture the heart to let out all the badness. *...

I wear two hats, no, really I wear two hats. They are both in my work bag, one grey and one olive drab. They're the poofy ...

How many times has he tried to annoy me, a poke, a punch, a negative answer to a  positive question.  He needs to know I love h...

Who could find fault with their mission aboard The Beam, lights playing off the surface of its long cylindrical shape, as it approached ...

This was cut out of "Sleepless in Seoul"  because it did not involve insomnia or being homeless in the city.  It is simply a...