9. THE HOSTEL

What is it like being up in the mountains? I’ll tell you my experience, friend, and you see if it compares with yours at all. Like I already told you, I reserved two nights at a hostel. Well I’m going to tell you right now not to. Fork out the extra cash. At least secure […]

6. JABBER MOUTH JABBERS NO MORE

If I don’t shut up soon, I may never shut up. No, you’ll never shut me up, my friend. But you may stop reading me. And which is worse? I have a masterful brain teeming with thoughts and an obedient mouth to speak them. Good for me, eh? Now that I’ve known what it feels […]

TOAD AND DAZZLE WART

Whoever once wrote of the Princess and His Highness Frog, the Royal Ribbit, must have been a prince himself. Otherwise, the story wouldn’t have possibly ended with the kiss. Not with the marriage, either. Because the story really ends with their separation. Once an ugly toad, always and ugly toad; the feeling remains. He tortures […]

TO MY LOVE, THE ANTI-INTELLECTUAL WHO NEVER READS

Shush up for a bit and I’ll tell you a secret. How does one overcome the despair of repetition? How does two deal with the fact that everyday’s the same? That next year, Friday the 12th, he’ll be doing exactly the same thing as today, always today? Six o’clock breakfast, ten o’clock break; five o’clock, […]

Go ahead, divorce your wife. A funny thing will happen. I was flipping through my favorite book, when all of a sudden, all the words became, “Elizabeth.” “Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Elizabeth,” they read. The chapter heading? “Elizabeth.” The book title? “Elizabeth.” The only thing different was the final sentence on the final page. It said: […]

ARSENIC FOR HIGHER PURPOSES

I’ve been poisoning her day by day into loving me. It only takes one drop from my magic bottle into her glass of water. Drop! It’s Monday and she loves me. Drop! It’s Tuesday and she lusts. Drop, drop, drop! You get the point. She’s loved me for a year! But yesterday—I don’t know how […]

THOSE OF US WHO STARE AT THE MOON

All love is not good love. Those of you who think otherwise: consider us loons! “Loon” is a fitting name for it rhymes with moon. Moon, moon! The imprisoner! There’s also the fact that “loon” accurately describes what each of us has become: lunatics in love. But not a good love. Not a good love […]

THE HOMETOWN DILEMMA

After years abroad, he came back home and KISSY KISSY, reunited with his family. Wonderful time. Old familiar lunches, long-forgotten haunts. The memories! One day, as he was driving around town, he spotted a vehicle that made him reminisce. His heart dropped and ah! Youthful love! His high school crush…it almost made him blush to […]