WarOfTheRoses
Profile
Glowering at aphids since 1972
Groups
WarOfTheRoses is a member of All About Your Best Work, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Flash Fiction, Pulp Noir, Short stories - Spherical Scriptings and Sydney.
Journal Entries
Ask RedBubble: What the hell am I doing here? Answers inside...
Posted over 2 years ago, 11 comments so far.
Book Review: Stories to Live, Amy Hempel
Posted over 2 years ago, 1 comment so far.
Writing
The Holding Spell
In her spare time / she practices magic / but not the kind / you see on TV. / To the best of my knowledge / she can’t do card tricks, / saw people in half, / or make coins disappear. To get w…
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Middle-Class God of Wrath
Cure everyone / then make them sick. / Hold everyone up / then let go / at the worst possible time / so they smash. Spit lies at the pieces / make promises you can’t keep / like / everything…
Stiff Fingers
“What are the three things that tell you they’re dead?” Nick is testing me. He wants to make sure I’ve been listening. For Nick, the right answers alone are not enough. Orde…
When I was overseas...
I found out first hand what culture shock was. It’s a panicky feeling, like, I don’t even know how to buy a coke. I’ve never been to Europe but I imagine it wouldn’t be so bad …
Coco: Live at the tinfoil
If you can see train tracks from your front window, you probably live on the wrong side of them. At one time, my view beyond the tracks was a line of factories nobody wanted to live near. Like the pla…
6 word story
My cat eats dragonflies like candy.
