The Shattered Prayer

Chapter 8 kicked my ass yesterday. Never did get it finished. I ran into a wall with the intensity level. It began on a highly intense level and of course I didn’t want to end it with anything less. I’m working toward a change in setting but I want to make sure the transition is […]

Yesterday was not only Katrina Remembrance Day, it was also the Catholic Observance of the beheading of John the Baptist. I celebrated by beheading a baptist.
Okay, I celebrated by thinking of beheading a Baptist.
And by doing the dance of the seven veils. I was short four veils. And they weren’t veils, they were bandanas.
It was […]

Ken Korczac, whose blog is one of my favourite feats of storytelling on the net, recently wrote a two part series for Unexplained Mysteries call My Night with the Devil Worshippers. Its a funny harrowing story and I feel compelled to share my own, not so similar, story.
Whereas Ken had a single night with multiple […]

Today is Bush’s day of remembrance for the victims of Katrina. I will be remembering. How could I ever forget? I remember all those faces in my neighborhood that I’ll never see again: I remember the suffering and the loss and the despair of all the people left in the city. I remember the drowned […]

This happened while I was living in Durham in the north of England. Durham is a lovely town, situated around a majestic cathedral and a castle that sits high on a hill, looming over the town like so much doom. This is really the only good thing about Durham. The people are unfriendly and small-minded […]

I completely forgot I had an appointment with the therapist today. I was too busy writing. I guess writers would understand this excuse. And people who know me well would understand this excuse. Might not go over too well with the therapist though.
That said, i got a big chunk of Chapter 7 completed, and notes […]

I’ve decided that, if I still have a home come november, I’m going to take part in this years NaNoWriMo. Which means I have to be ready to start a new novel from scratch at the first of November.
Which in turn means that I need to complete the novel I’m working on by then, because […]

I was just having a gander at some popular searches that lead people to my site. Most of them are self-explanatory. A search for the johor hominid or 3D crop circle will generally take you to a page on the Noumenal News. Baker-Miller pink - I’ve spoken of that many times on the old Shattered […]

Sunday is my second favourite day of the week, next to Wednesday. I’ll bet UFO watchers and paranormal investigators know why I like Wednesdays, but not many other people will.
Sundays, however, are probably about the only good idea the christians every had. “Hey, lets make a day of rest. A day to do nothing.” A […]

I plan to spend the day reading, give my strained mental faculties a break before the grey matter starts to ooze from my ears. I can see them now, those wolves, licking my ears for a taste of my tangled brain as it unravels from the hollows of my hearing. Tastes like Brunswick Stew, they’d […]

Surfing the net. Its something most of us do everyday, but do we want to read about other people doing it. We certainly don’t want to watch other people do it. No, we all want control over that mouse.
There was nothing more boring than watching my ex-husband surf the net, no matter what […]

(This means you too, Bas)
I have no idea why you’re still using that piece of crap browser, but if you’re using IE, then you aren’t seeing my site the way its meant to be seen. Would you go to the National Gallery in London and look at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers through a pair of sunglasses?
No.
Okay, […]

Thanks to my friends who’ve been showing care and support through all the crap recently. Bas and R the P and all y’all (yep, I say y’all, so sue me) who I’m lucky to have in my life.
R the P has been working long hours lately so hasn’t been around much, but he assures me […]

What do Google and Amazon have in common?
Fuck if I know but something weird and nefarious is going on. It all started with HIM. Yes, I’m referring to the Finnish band His Infernal Majesty. I’m not a crazed fan by any stretch of the imagination but on a rainy night they can make a nice […]

I can’t say I’ve felt much like writing lately, but I really can’t let all this tension stop me from doing what I love most. So through all the anxiety, nausea, insomnia, exhaustion, headaches, tummy aches and decreased appetite, I write.
Worked on my novel through much of a sleepless night, but I don’t want to […]