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This Is Not a Hug Song

This Is Not a Hug Song

June 17, 2020November 15, 2020 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  2 Comments

A subway train assuredly could outrun the wrath of a sleepy pantheon deprived of mortgage payments and meal tickets since the masses stopped tithing. But still she worried.
[Photo by bruceley]

Begonia Escargot

Begonia Escargot

April 30, 2017April 30, 2017 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  Leave a comment

No, the steam-powered jackalopes would never arrive in time to save us — unless our one great hope could succeed. The hope’s name, of course, was Begonia Escargot.
[Image by A.A. Salmon, shared by The State Library of Queensland, Australia]

Grey Train

Grey Train

April 25, 2017April 26, 2017 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  Leave a comment

“Too bad,” Rutherford said, as if on cue. “Too bad about that hole in your hand.”
[Image shared by The Library of Congress]

Our Legs Crossed in Just the Right Way

Our Legs Crossed in Just the Right Way

August 2, 2013April 25, 2017 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  Leave a comment

Bolted to the headstart, we were going to the galactic center of a Tootsie Roll Pop and licking every center from the inside out and there was nothing the scientists could do to stop us.
[Image by Jack Delano, shared by The Library of Congress]

Something Done Right

Something Done Right

July 14, 2011January 21, 2020 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  Leave a comment

He probably should have retraced his steps and tried another destination when it was clear that the elevator had dropped him off in 1927 instead of 1972.
[Image by Wreford Miller]

The Dust of Past Decades

The Dust of Past Decades

July 4, 2011February 27, 2018 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  Leave a comment

“Old ghosts aren’t always old souls. If one must play with them, play nice.”
[Image by Christina Ramey]

Hiding out in Hillbilly Timbuktu

Hiding out in Hillbilly Timbuktu

June 23, 2011February 27, 2018 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  Leave a comment

The motel wasn’t highbrow enough to be considered fleabag; even the most infinitesimal of bloodsuckers were more discerning with their taste in lowlifes than the clientele of this shit stain in the middle of hillbilly Timbuktu.
[Image by Raniel Diaz]

Taming the Long Thirst

Taming the Long Thirst

June 21, 2011January 28, 2018 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  Leave a comment

Most of them had looked forward longingly to the cheerfully bitter brew that now, as Fulholme himself was fond of saying, “tamed the long thirst” with the exception of Optiminius the Teetotaler, who was loathe to give up his long-coveted and recently earned nickname for even a few scant drops of what his order deemed to be “demon spittle.”
[Photo by Patrick Fore]

No One’s a Wunderkind in the Darkness

June 19, 2011January 27, 2018 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  2 Comments

Donald spoke m-dip fluently (and, like untold others, secretly), but he found himself wishing, at that moment, that he didn’t.
[Photo by the_matt]

Minor Crimes Uncommitted

Minor Crimes Uncommitted

March 27, 2011January 29, 2018 Robert Glen Fogarty  Writing  Leave a comment

I will get rich on the overwhelming evidence of the sea’s indifference to human suffering.
[Photo above by Keith Marshall]

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