Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball -or- Conception and Induction -or- How to Begin an Apocalypse, episode 6: In which Trevor attends his English class without incident, then finds himself in P.E. – where he gets a very fast and harsh introduction to Dodgeball as he’s never seen it before.
This one is actually a haiku. A semi-blasphemous haiku, depending on how you interpret it. Enjoy.
Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball -or- Conception and Induction -or- How to Begin an Apocalypse, episode 5: In which Trevor gets ready for his first day at his new school with only a couple of missteps before he makes it out his front door, makes a good first impression in the hallway before class, and then finds himself fitting in and performing well during first hour.
This is another quick one, but from my other Worth 1k collection, capturing a bit of how I was feeling after hiking and driving around in the Utah desert most of the day (after driving most of the night).
Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball -or- Conception and Induction -or- How to Begin an Apocalypse, episode 4: In which Trevor is transported magically by Sqrat to a school he’d thought he’d only imagined existed, learns he’s to be a student there, and quite suddenly finds he knows more than enough magic -and the world’s secret history- to be able to fit in come Monday morning.
This is another quick poem from the second of my Worth 1k poetry journals. It’s about nostalgia, I suppose. There’s a part of town where a surprising number of the women whom I’ve had emotionally intense and meaningful relationships have been living, almost all of which while I was living (one time or another) where I live now. These neighborhoods are easily half an hour away from each other, by car, and some of these relationships occurred well before I (or they) drove. So there are a lot of memories of this drive across town, in the middle of the night, after spending time with someone I care about.
This poem was written on one such drive, after spending the evening with the woman who I came to marry, driving through an all-too-familiar neighborhood an experiencing an all-too-familiar feeling that spoke to me that night of all the times I’d felt that way before. Of all the times I’d thought it would become something more before, and it didn’t work out.
This time, it would work out; it did work out. I just didn’t know it yet.
Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction – Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball -or- Conception and Induction -or- How to Begin an Apocalypse, episode 3: In which Trevor takes a journey of the mind, hopping from person to person and place to place at a thought, growing better and better at getting into the innermost thoughts of other people, and finally reaching the mind of Betty, one of his classmates, to try to learn what he imagines she thinks of him.