I hate having my picture taken. Always have. I used to do some photography myself. I prefer to observe, so being on the business end of the camera makes me uncomfortable. But a local magazine is doing an article on my music, and they want to set up a photo shoot. I reluctantly agree, but set my own terms; I refuse to go along with any of the goofy concepts t...
As usual, based on real events in my life. As I placed my infant daughter in her crib, I could hear the sound of water rushing through the plumbing. I smiled. Celia, my wife, was finally getting that shower she'd needed, wanted, for three days. Caring for a small baby was time-consuming, of that there was no doubt. She was suffering a little post-partum de...
His hand dwarfed hers. His fingers, long and smooth, snaked through her own, and it was their gentle pressure that guided her through the throngs of people in the mall. She was oblivious to their surroundings, heard only his voice whispering her name, saw only his face in profile, preceding her in the crowd, felt only the tug on her hand and the soft, but qu...
THE ALCHEMY OF MY REMAKING: YELLOW INTRO: The Code: Yellow is the color of trust Orange for royalty Red for lust Brown for the richness of the earth, coffee, cocoa, and crude oil There were sophisticated ladies and there was Lady M. Everything about her was out of a fifties Hollywood movie. She used a long filter to smoke cigarettes. She wore long glo...
WAKAIKI BEACH DECEMBER 1941 I was a WAC nurse stationed at Tripler Army Hospital. I went into Honolulu for cocktails with a couple of the other nurses that Saturday night. We went to the Ala Moana Hotel, the best gathering spot around. The other two nurses had dates, so they split off and I decided to stay for dinner. It was crowded, mostly military personn...
I guess I froze. Not a very common sight it makes out to be. A middle class married housewife standing in the middle of a library, her sari bunched around her waist, bent over with her blouse open, her bra almost in her mouth and her ripe fruits hanging to be plucked. I guess the very thought of it would make any man or woman either shit with fright or get v...
You cross the room to me, your eyes are sparkling with need. "what are you waiting for?" you ask. "For you to tell me what you want." I answer. You reach out as you kneel in front of me. Your small hands caress the soft leather pants I wear. "I want you naked, too." You push my T-shirt up as you stroke my chest, teasing my nipples. I lean forward so you can...
Dirt flew up out of a small hole, in the midst of the wetlands. It was night, and the foggy moonless sky made it a perfect setting for a horror movie. All was quiet save for the croaking of frogs in the swamp. But as more dirt and mud spewed from the hole, all creatures big and small in the wetlands sensed the birth of something evil beyond their comprehensi...
Sitting in my dorm room letting the rough fast beat of a techno song bang against my ears I sat and thought of the night to come, a night of glowsticks, glitter, love and magic. It was to be my first time at a rave and I was excited. I thought of the thousands of situations that were possible in that surrealistic dance party that they call a rave. As my roo...
The mermaid was thrown out of her watery bower by the tsunami and ended up high and dry on the beach. Good God, what a nightmare for her. But the mob she drew was engrossed by her beauty and seeming fragility. They didn't know she had the strength of the sea at her beckoning. When she awoke from her dazed dreaming she was sore afraid. There she was set asho...