• Sanguinis Memoria II

    “He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him the apple of his eye.” Deuteronomy 32:10  The sun had started to set a little too late. Maybe that was my sign to stay put just one more night in

  • Sanguinis Memoria

    Hebrews 11:38 “Of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.”  It was cold, even for being this deep into the mountains. The skin on my knuckles cracked every time I flexed my fingers around the reigns in my hand and I could feel

  • thus spake the axe

    Or, death to the thought daughter If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? I feel like this is one of those old little sayings that I have actually gotten into many a heated discussion about over the years. My answer has stayed

  • vul*ner*a*bil*i*ty

    David Lynch died on January 15, 2025. There are a myriad of places on the internet where you can find the timeline of his life, his deeply important work, and why you should actually give a shit about a man like that leaving this earth. So many people have already waxed poetic about who he

  • cinnamon and apples

    She hadn’t even thought it was a real number. Apparently her grandparents had actually been properly loaded, and her parents didn’t touch much of that money. She assumed that they had planned to retire on all of it, but she was never going to be sure now. The pen sat heavy in her hand as

  • trying is terrifying

    Stagnacy seems to do nothing for me however, so I am choosing to be terrified. I have this issue with being perceived in a way that’s not true to who I am, which is why the last thing of mine that was properly published is a small article in a college paper from at least