[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

“Billy stayed in the wagon when it reached the slaughterhouse, sunning himself.  The others went looking for souvenirs.  Later on...

We’d spent a week on the beach: me, my wife, my daughter, and my son.  Incidentally, we’d moved to a new house the week prior to...

Feeling listless on Europa, Jupiter looming large in the sky. A Ransomed traveler  asking the what? and why? But there is ...

He was 4 when we rolled out the new rug, the moving boxes cut and connected into a  huge cardboard fort with many windows, Gr...

It was 30 years ago today that King’s X dropped their second album “Gretchen Goes to Nebraska.”  The year was 1989 and I was a ne...

Aaron has come unstuck in time, much like Billy Pilgrim at the beginning of chapter two in Slaughterhouse-Five.  There’s a kind of...

A soldier for Uncle Sam but I do not know who I am Not that it even matters when the bullet flies, splatters Maki...

The sleeve was gone Coffee cup hot Making it hard to hold Fingers burning But Like Kwai Chang Caine I bravely...

Yesterday after work I had to go pick up my son at a friend’s house who lives a good distance north of us off a busy highway.  In ord...

Looking at a picture of me and my son  on an escalator in the DC subway system  unexpectedly brings a kind of epiphany:   ...

If my tongue were blue  I’d be locked in a zoo with nothing to do  but sit and stew  in monkey poo.    In lieu, my ...

When my sister’s back  was crooked, not straight, the Shriners came  not a minute too late. They trundled forth In thei...

It was the last day of school and he figured he wouldn’t waste his time sleeping for the rest of the summer.  Even as his parents drop...

I stand on the precipice toes touching only air as the chasm yawns. Love will fill this space but not by my efforts alone...

With so much suffering in the world one must find the consolations of beauty and love, a reason to keep going, the courage to s...

The towering Mother (so lovingly tall) peeks down in my crib from the back wall. I feel my dependence (in spite of it a...