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The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 84

mightymur — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:44:53 +0000

Scenes Thursdays

Guan-yin came home from Black Belt World in tears. She had been training for three months – enough time to get a black belt, according to the sensei that her father paid $120 a month to. A tall blond white man, Sensei George kept assuming Guan-yin was Japanese, kept asking her how “her more »

The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 79

mightymur — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:20:19 +0000

Scenes Thursdays:

When Wal-Mart put in the world’s largest kids’ ball pit, Johnny was thrilled, but it made my breath catch in my throat.

Never mind the fact that as a doctor, she feared what germs and diseases lurked in such places. It was the other things that lived there. As a child, she had more »

The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 72

mightymur — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:23:16 +0000

Scenes Thursdays:

I went out to visit the prayer grove yesterday. It used to be a prayer tree, a holy yew where we hung our wishes to the gods. But ever since the local youth were conscripted to go to battle, the tree has expanded to the grove that surrounds it. I saw the shaman more »

The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 65 – Fool Week

mightymur — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:52:20 +0000

Scenes Thursdays

The shattered businessman sat at his desk, his head hung low. His fool stood in the doorway, not called upon, but entering unbidden as always.

The fool goes where other’s cannot. But at the end of the day, they are still fools.

“I recommend saying that you’re taking time to spend with your more »

The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 58

mightymur — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:29:23 +0000

(I know i’m sometimes late on these. Feeling sluggish lately. Sorry.)

Scenes Thursdays

Gladys saw the guest struggle into the hotel and weighed her options. The woman was small, about 115 pounds and five feet tall. She had a fine Chinese face, but a set to her jaw that implied that she was quite used more »

The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 52

mightymur — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:34:39 +0000

Scenes Thursdays

They called me the other day. You know. Them. They from “that’s what they say.” I had applied to join “some people”, but They said I’d be better suited to join them.

It’s hard work, being part of Them. We (They) meet in a large room with a black oak table and doughnuts more »

The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 45

mightymur — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:01:35 +0000

Scenes Thursdays

They mocked her. Yes they did, they mocked the career woman, college-educated brilliant scientist when she decided to care for the home. They didn’t know. They couldn’t understand.

Some could. The other women who did the same. They all had the same infestation too.

Mildew and dust bunnies were the masks that covered more »

The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 38

mightymur — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:41:33 +0000

Scenes Thursdays:

(Some of this is true.)

I never take into account how much that can go wrong in the block I walk to pick up my child from the bus stop. I always try to remember to take with me: my dog, a weapon, a camera, and my phone. When I forget these things, more »

The News From Poughkeepsie – Day 31 – Pie Week!

mightymur — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:11:37 +0000

Travel slowing me down-

Pie week continues.

Scenes Thursdays:

Cherry pie is oft considered – inappropriately – to be the best pie filling to smear on your lover before licking it off in sex play. But the fruit pies tend to drip and then there’s the mess on the sheets. For me, nothing more »