Periodically, I experience a loss of grounding. Meaning is a rug that is pulled out from under me. I have to admit, it’s not just happening to me. I am active in making it happen; I seem to habitually seek this imbalance out; this confusion; this suffering; this being in the unknown; this transitional place.… Continue reading Liminality and the Trickster
Category: very short fiction
The Grace of The Son
I’m going to break my rule and write a post about my son. I shy from this, because I want to protect his privacy, and because I don’t want to endanger his safety in any way. Not that I have any reason to feel that any of us are endangered. We really live a… Continue reading The Grace of The Son
Thicker Than Liquor
by Helvetica Stone In the four hours it would take the user Alexis to get to Chicago, the Apple XYZ Server had to come up with a human body. He took everything he knew about male anatomy and sent it to a 3-D printer left unattended in an empty architect’s office on Wacker Drive. First,… Continue reading Thicker Than Liquor
Ghostory
Ghostory by Helvetica Stone A complete novel in 78 less-than-140-character chapters, originally published on @helveticastone The ghost attached itself to the head of a woman weakened from holiday shopping, filling her thoughts with plans of an ultimate escape. The ghost whispered, “drive off the overpass.” She said, “not today.” Suicide might not have made them… Continue reading Ghostory