Singingfool

LATEST ARTICLES ( 209 )

• Song of the Times

  

  We steam clean our rage until what was once human becomes tepidWe are not the only ones who are frailYet we proceed as if none matter moreCataclysms hail toward... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Epigram for the Most Wretched of Creatures

  

  My cat looks at me with such indiff’rence I almost can’t abide Yet turns on the charm and nuzzles my arm when she wants to go outside Why oh why do I live at he... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fiction: From Now On

  

  The boops and beeps sliced through the fog rolling across the lake, which was so still her reflection stared back at her without wavering.How long had she been... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Venetian Light

  

  Twilight last night found me doing something out of the norm. Usually I’d be on my butt watching The Wire and eating an indifferent dinner around this time,... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Take Us to the Snow

  

  When I was five years old, my dad promised to take me and my sister to the snow. We lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, and the idea of snow was as foreign to me... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Meeting | Fiction

  

  The first thing I saw upon entering the inn was the tabby perched on the same table as the ale jugs, pink tongue curling between the toes of its hind paw. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Choices

  

  Thursday MorningAs I take attendance, my voice rolls out just like my high school theatre teacher taught me.“Enunciate to the back row,” I can hear her booming... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Traveller

  

  When I Left you alone You grew large, expanding Until you seeped through all my heart’s Chambers.When I Indulged the fantasy, dreaming Of leaving, you cajoled... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Look at the Numbers

  

  I am staring at the sheet of paper pinned to the bulletin board, but I can’t make the numbers behave. The curves and lines do not translate to a figure with... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Compassion and The Self: #1000Speak

  

  It is Friday night, and I am stealing a few moments at the computer to write these words. I have spent all day doing the things I can only do on my day off... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Compound Interest

  

  Everyone was laughing except me. At this point, I had pasted a smile to my face, which now felt stiff and wooden. I probably looked like a monkey, tightened lip... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ere I Go

  

  , tell me you love me, the way You did when fervor newly found ingress In hearts untested by lust’s impish play. `Fore cares wore down our souls to fathoms less. Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Expression

  

  Stand still, and I will read to theeTo fit the naked foot of PoesyAll of which were words, words, wordsBut in my simple ignorance I supposeMuch have I seen and... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Gambler’s Fallacy

  

  It didn’t start out as a way to avoid chemicals or “toxins,” those nebulous little buggers that Southern Californian middle class white women in Lululemon deem... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Giving and Taking

  

  Giving. It’s what most women are trained to do pretty much since birth. Here’s this dolly, nurture it. Here’s this house, it’s your job to make sure it’s... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• New Year: Anew

  

  It made sense to end the year as it had gone on. So much pain last year needed acknowledgment. As much as I enjoy star shine and buttercups, it would have been... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Let That Be Enough

  

  Perpetual dissatisfaction marked my childhood. The neighborhoods I grew up in were too sterile, too full of cement and subdivisions. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• She’d Have Liked That

  

  She died on Thanksgiving Day, hours before dawn. We had known it would be soon, but had hoped someone would be with her when she went. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• If We Let It

  

  It patters on the banana fronds Runs in rivulets down muddy streets Mossy tufts sprout in the old gypsy’s room The house crumbling around us. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Take Me Away

  

  “Natalie,” Mrs. Stenninger bent down to my desk. Tall and angular, she always squatted to talk to us at our tiny desks. I quickly shoved my book into the... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION