stark raving calm » oneword http://starkravingcalm.com a mad writer's blogoratory Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:40:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Circus http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/circus http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/circus#comments Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:59:33 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/circus Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Three rings and a ball of fire, spinning madly about the sorcerer’s hand like a weird circus of illusion. He winked at the crowd. “There’s more where that came from.”

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/circus/feed 0 Map http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/map http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/map#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:03:27 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=135 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Folded in an insane origami on the passenger seat lay a map of a place he’d never been and had no idea how to get to. It was one thing to get in the car and drive; it was quite another to actually reach the place he wanted to go.

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/map/feed 0 Breakdown http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/breakdown http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/breakdown#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:41:02 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=131 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The side of the highway held the most amazing spectacle: it started as a random breakdown, nothing crazy, but the rain and mud and fog and sharp curve created something much more devastating.

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/breakdown/feed 0 Unfold http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/unfold http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/unfold#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:23:32 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=129 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Laundry was neatly placed in the armoire, the work of a domestic craftsman. It was a toddler’s dream; a place to exercise complete destructive abandon. Within seconds clothes were unfolded and lying everywhere.

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/unfold/feed 0 Emergency http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/emergency http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/emergency#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:43:19 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=128 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> “Help! I’m stuck out here in the middle of nowhere and I don’t have a phone.”

“What’s the problem?”

“That doesn’t sound like an emergency to you? How am I supposed to get that call from my sister?”

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/emergency/feed 0 Direct http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/direct http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/direct#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:20:17 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=125 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> “How can you be so direct and so unassuming at the same time?” he wondered aloud. “No one I’ve ever met makes raw honesty so alluring and so refreshing.”

“I wish I knew.”

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/direct/feed 0 Attendant http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/attendant http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/attendant#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:01:02 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=123 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> She winked at the garage attendant. “Take extra-special care of my baby, would you? There’s something in it for you.”

He wondered, as she drove off, what that something was and whether it would’ve been worth skipping the joyride.

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/attendant/feed 0 Surface http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/surface http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/surface#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:56:12 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=122 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> There was an easy definition for the word, one you could pick off the tip of your brain, but that was only scraping the surface of the matter. What was required was deeper, more intensive study, and that was something your brain just wasn’t up to.

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/surface/feed 0 Linger http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/linger http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/linger#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:17:44 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=121 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The thought sped across my mental vision, too quick to capture. If it had lingered, just a moment, I felt I’d be able to finish what I’d started. Too late.

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]]> http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/linger/feed 0 Belonging (Oneword Returns) http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/belonging-oneword-returns http://starkravingcalm.com/archives/belonging-oneword-returns#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:03:34 +0000 Jonathan http://starkravingcalm.com/?p=120 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Oneword is finally back from The Land of Endless Pane. It’s my own personal wakeup cattle prod. Time to get started writing again. I’m definitely rusty. Don’t worry, though — they can only get better.

A morose mood was on him today. A feeling of belonging to nowhere in particular. Time was crawling past and there was nothing for it but to sit and watch. He had his act together, was ready to go.

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