I did something creative! My little wrung-out sponge of a brain managed to ooze a flash piece and three illustrations for my friend Chad Woody’s book, a collection of small horror stories, called The Darkest Season. Expect humor, horror, and Christmas rolled into one festive, grotesque, ungainly animal. It’s great fun.
Merry Christmas!
Double up on armloads of toilet paper,
It’s time for the post Christmas toilet ceremony!
We’ll all rush to our separate homes
Get naked
Sit on our toilets
And void our regrets.
Wrapping paper shreds
Exploded packaging and
Happy hugs, chatter
Each left with a little sack of
Their own to take home.
A hundred tiny lights shine
Gentle illumination
Everyone’s smiling
In pools of mixing color.
Santa is watching.
Hugs all around us.
Life has slowed down for today.
Have some more egg nog.
I almost forgot
To get out the apple pie!
Let me help you with that.
Thank you.
In another country today
Someone is bent over a dead body
In another country today
Broken buildings and scrambles for water
Miles away from where we are happy
We are devastated.
Merry Christmas, children
Open your presents
And know how much you are loved.
Your parents, your family, everyone is here
Eat until we are sick
Laugh together until we cry
This is the best way to live
It’s a lucky day, children
We found a scrap of bread. Take my share
And know how much you are loved.
Unsure where your father is, your siblings
Sick from not eating
Never let them see you cry
This is the only way to survive
Fresh Hell 