Kid World
August 30, 2023
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I’m in kid world, that place where my days are driven by the tempo and rhythm of children (usually but not always my kid). I’m in kid world much,
Fatherhood 8 Years In
July 19, 2023
Essays
Elliott flourishes, and this pleases me. She has friends and family. She has school and her dog. She has more or less good
I’ve never been much an editor, much less an archivist.
June 12, 2023
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That said, I’ve always bucked against my own leanings and biases; felt like I should be a
A New Moon
June 12, 2023
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I lost writing, for a time. It was one of a myriad of things I threw on the pyre of trying to keep a failing marriage going, mortgaging
Human beings live inside stories.
June 1, 2023
Essays
Perhaps it is possible -with brain injury or with enlightenment- to live outside them rather than simply take
Meditations
April 24, 2023
Essays
I started writing this when I was 19. I had less chill then, was prone to imagining that hardness would allow me to be what I wanted
I recently performed a story I wrote for So Say We All’s show, VAMP.
January 4, 2023
Nonfiction
Here’s a link, possibly embed. And if you prefer the written version, that’s
Time used to be different.
August 8, 2022
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We used to make time with the animals and plants. Spring was when daffodils bloomed, which varied year to year as we
A Pile of Dead Selves
August 2, 2022
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Death and rebirth is the name of the game. Rising, only to fall, only to rise again; life and death, victory and defeat, expansion contraction – the
I used to suffer from optimization sickness.
June 1, 2022
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Whatever I was doing, I thought I could do it better. Whatever I accompished, I thought I could do
Seven Rounds
May 24, 2022
Fiction
By J.M. Perkins ‘Drop him!’ I command, wishing my voice was deeper. The perp does, but then stalks towards me. “Halt!” I say and this
I never regret camping.
April 12, 2022
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I never regret going out dancing. I never regret writing. I never regret having an adventure with my kid. I never regret
Depending on what door you enter a building through, your mannerisms,
April 2, 2022
Essays
your _; the same data/information will be interpreted differently as
In the Absence
September 8, 2021
Fiction
This story originally appeared in Girl at the End of the World Melissa laced her fingers around the cup of coffee, drawing in heat
Earth Day
September 8, 2021
Fiction
For thousands of years, we did not understand our purpose. Those were dark times, times when we poisoned the sky and soured the land
The Numinous, Trauma, and What Comes After
August 2, 2021
Essays
Imagine you see a UFO. It doesn’t have to be a UFO, but Something that doesn’t fit in your worldview: light(s) in the sky not following all the
Let us begin here, in what is the source of ancient & eternal
May 30, 2021
Blog
wisdom: you will die. Unless you pin your hopes on some manner of transhuman excess or
Field Exercise
May 19, 2021
Fiction
“Where’d you go, my little crustacean?” asked the Gimp aloud, senses probing the grimy alley. Of course, in the skin-tight latex wrapped kevlar of
Ignoring the Overlay
May 19, 2021
Fiction
Jenny sat, tapping her fingers to keep from biting her nails. She was having trouble concentrating. She was having trouble being here and now, in
The Taste of Soured Causality
May 19, 2021
Fiction
1. To Ethan, Veronica had never been more beautiful. Across the room, he watched her sip her champagne and laugh as she touched her husband’s arm.
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