This is some thing that I found in my scraps folder on my hard drive… I think that it must have been inspired by a contest that Weird Tales magazine held:
March 6, 1925
Dear Sir,
I am writing this letter to you in the hopes that it finds you in the greatest of moods. The news that [...]
Student:
Deciding to decide you relinquish your freedom to decide.
Master:
Well ain’t that just as sweet as a peach in a pickle vat.
What American author wrote an epic poem that is longer than Milton’s Paradise Lost? The answer surprised me.
But Time the cruel, whose smooth way
Is feline, patient for the prey
That to this twig of being clings;
And Fate, which from her ambush springs
And drags the loiterer soon or late
Unto a sequel unforeseen.
— Jerusalem “Nathan” I.17.331-337, Clarel
The stars are so very far away. Further than you and I can fathom. Could they be within our reach? Stars are lonely but we might visit them to slake their thirst for humanity. Would this help? Doubtful. A star’s life is a solitary life. Burning slow like a candle or popping like an old [...]
After I first met Tom the vision of his gaunt face kept me up for days. I knew Tom for two years and he scared the shit out of me every one of those days. I could not stop visiting him though. I would drop by at least once a week, sometimes twice if I [...]