UNDER THE WILL… OVER THE DRAMA…

Tag: fiction

  • 🐾Megín…

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    This week, a fresh paw-print appeared on the Spirit Sofa. Everyone, please welcome Megín, chocolate Labrador, loyal companion, beer thief, and lifelong lover of boat rides. She’s reporting in from the other side, tail thumping and nose twitching, with a message (and possibly a half-drunk bottle of beer) for those of us still paddling through…

  • The Stranger at the Wake – Part 3…

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    The Stranger at the Wake – Part 1 The Stranger at the Wake – Park 2 The Night of Strange Alliances… It’s taken me a while to be able to write this one. Some things stick in your throat no matter how much time passes. And this part… this one stuck. After the wake, the…

  • The Best Revenge: Sanity in the Face of Family Madness…

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    The Best Revenge: Sanity in the Face of Family Madness (aka: Why I Didn’t Set Anyone on Fire Today)… There’s a special kind of madness that only family can trigger.You know the one, where grown adults behave like petty teenagers, gaslight you for sport, and make you question whether you’ve somehow walked into a badly-written…

  • Oi – It’s Huff. Yeah, from the other side…

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    Oi – It’s Huff. Yeah, from the other side. And no, it’s not awkward at all. Well, would you look at that – the old boy’s gone and figured out how to send a message from beyond. Not bad for a scruffy mutt who spent most of his days pretending not to hear you when…

  • Episode 78 -The Dementia Deal: Brought to You by Bully & Fanny….

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    You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family… and you sure as hell can’t stop them from flogging your house while you’re halfway to the afterlife. Ah, Bully. The man, the myth, the legend in his own lunchbox. You know the type, thinks charisma is the same thing as intimidation, and loyalty…

  • Darcifer’s Dispatch from the Great Beyond…

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    Darcifer’s Dispatch from the Great Beyond (Canine Edition)… Woof. It’s me, Darcifer. Yep, your old black lab, the one with the ragged ear, the tail like a whip, and a nose for trouble long before it ever arrived. I’ve been keeping one watchful eye (and both twitchy ears) on Faurel Hill since your dad made…

  • Episode 78 – Pedestals, Ghosts, and the Tattler-in-Chief..

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    Pedestals, Ghosts, and the Tattler-in-Chief: An Ode to Fanny McFox… You know, it’s funny the things you don’t see until you’ve lived long enough to grow your own collection of scars. How did I never see through her? The infamous Fanny McFox, tattler, gatekeeper, ghoster supreme. Back when I was a teenager, I was waging…

  • Episode 76 – Bully Post..

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    Mae Faurel
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    Bully Post: The Night the Chimneys Spoke… You know what always blows my mind about people like Bully? It’s not the big dramatic stuff – it’s the relentless, petty, low-grade negligence that piles up like a heap of rotting turf until one night it tries to kill you. Let me paint you a picture. I…

  • Episode 75 – Bully’s War Room…

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    Bully’s War Room: How to Take Over a Life in 5 Easy Steps… You ever watch a horror film where you’re shouting at the telly, ‘Don’t go in there! Don’t trust him! Can’t you see what’s happening?! ‘ Yeah – that was my life. Only it wasn’t a horror film. It was my Dad, me,…

  • Dad chimes in..

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    Message from Dad (from beyond the veil)… Hey kid… it’s me. Yeah, I know – it’s usually your Granny running the show. She’s still up here giving out orders like she’s got her own cloud with a ‘Reserved for Granny Frass’ sign on it. But I figured it was about time I stepped forward. Just…