As It Happens What we want in private is a secret unknown to public wishes. Our public desideratum may be clear to us; but inside we are never sure, never knowing. Wants are secreted away, hiding – closeted from ourselves. Ceremoniously coming down the stairs after an hour or so of wafting in the breeze [...]

That’s it. No more demise. Now get out. DO THE DEMISE Pt. 4 of 4 So Marky had pretty much putzed out with the drugs. It’s not that his stomach bothered him, he realizes, but rather that every action, every thought he now had did not seem to be his own. He lost the extreme [...]

Pt. 3 of 4 Marky’s mother was unsure what to do. It was not like deciding whether a note in some piece of Brahms should be played forte or mezzo-forte, the decision did not require that kind of precision. In any event, she knew what she had–and that was a blubbering baby boy, her own, [...]

DO THE DEMISE – Part 2 of a 4 part serial. For an 11 year-old, Marky had an extreme amount of self control. Sure he made problems for his mother, but on long car rides when his mother told him to shush, and he was in the right mood, he was able to silence himself [...]

DO THE DEMISE pt. 1 of 4 He was surrounded by products and decisions to make about those products. Sitting at his desk he stared at the computer screen. It was running an older version of the operating system that came standard on the machine he was operating when he purchased that machine, but he [...]

Steeped in feelings untold, allowing vomit to unfold in space. The long and lucky steam bath. Sitting in a well-proportioned chair at night, with the eyes open looking straight at the ceiling, feeling. The walls were just as they should have been. She was not sure if this even mattered. The dog was begging for [...]