Ergo, the Ogre

  • The Empty Side

    The Empty Side

    When I wake up… Instinctively, I reach for you and find the empty side of the bed. A flood of anguish in a raging sea of perpetual loneliness.

  • The Anomaly

    The Anomaly

    Today’s Sunday Writing Prompt over at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is Beautiful Mistake. Did you choose the wrong partner, but developed boundaries and self-confidence that prepared you for the right one? Did you accidently knock your coffee over your written manuscript, but when you re-wrote, it turned out even better? Did you take a job you ended…

  • Q

    Q

    It’s Song Lyric Sunday again with Jim Adams of A Unique Title for Me. This week we are to choose a song with the words Heaven/Hell in the title or lyrics. I chose If I Ever Lose This Heaven by Quincy Jones. Lyrics If you’re foolin’ only foolin’All I ask is whyIf you’re playin’ all…

  • With/Without

    With/Without

    I cannot imagine a world without your inescapable, reckless charm. Without a doubt, my finest hour was all about you and being part of your life; a dangerous secret — knowing all too well that we existed only in my mind. If only “we” could have had a chance before you fell in love with…

  • Smooth Gravel

    Smooth Gravel

    your old pick-up lines flow velvet-warm like good scotch from a cheap bottle.

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