It was a dark and stormy night. I understand this is considered a writing nadir but actually I think it makes a pretty good opening line, irregardless of what the naysayers say about it.
P.S. I am also rooting for Pluto to regain status as a planet.
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My Epitaph Collection (vol. 9)
Damn, just when I was getting the hang of it.
My Epitaph Collection (vol. 8)
This offhand comment from a biologist deserves immortality.
She wondered about genetic drift.
Or maybe the reverse is more meaningful.
He never wondered about genetic drift.
My Epitaph Collection (vol. 7)
No more fooling around.
Next time I come back as a cat.
My Epitaph Collection (vol. 6)
Death comes to all of us and yet.
They told me to expect the unexpected but here I am.
Add an -s, lose an -en?
For some reason, while correcting a typo, it occurs to me that a woman of many virtues may not be a woman of virtue and this suddenly brings back a memory from high school, where I had a friend who read old writing about knights and dragons and so forth. She was convinced that the writing had code words, and in particular, maid and maiden were not interchangeable. After a maiden got deflowered, she was a maid, per my friend. So, in our high school conversations about losing our virginity – which were incessant, for a while – we used the coded shorthand, losing our “-en”.
Also, Rock On!
For my birthday, a friend gave me a book about the Replacements (my all-time favorite band). With the book came a card that read
Happy birthday. Also, rock on!
Now, this has a certain poignancy, because she and I are both getting pretty frigging old by this point. But I mention it here simply because I so love the way she put it. Also, rock on!
P.S. The book is The Replacements, All over But the shouting: an oral history by Jim Walsh.
My Epitaph Collection (vol. 5)
This might describe me. I hope no one thinks it’s the whole story.
She lived at the corner of Skepticism and Rebellion.
My Epitaph Collection (vol. 4)
For the last word in petty revenge,
Not even the dog will miss him.
Words and Impacts (vol. 1)
it is probably not possible to have a serious conversation involving the word clam.
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