I've taken my share of beatings in my life; more, really, given that the average beating occurrence among Americans is probably not much more than zero, beatings being pretty finely distributed among very specific demographics…
Posts published by “Flynn Washburne”
Having just completed a well-deserved and long-deferred vacation, I am now questioning the wisdom and efficacy of that course of action, weighing the relief of stress against the loss of momentum and comforting allure of…
I have always liked the "well-oiled machine" comparison, evoking as it does images of briskly humming gears, cogs, cams, and belts efficently spinning away and finely tooled components seating themselves with satisfying metallic clicks and…
So: guns. Quite the prevailing topic of conversation these days. Everyone seems to have an opinion on the subject, no one is shy about expressing it, and given the general ubiquity of opinions and how…
I was getting ice cream at the Baskin-Robbins at Pear Tree, feeling a little uncomfortable and out of place. Ice cream parlors, with their brightly-lit, colorful interiors and excited children milling around experiencing the pre-sexual…
I am a big fan of irony, as a literary device. I enjoy its use by writers and I employ it liberally myself virtually every, time I put pen to paper. Saying what you mean,…
Writing is hard; make no mistake about that. Any images you may hold in your mind of effete, indolent idlers casually pecking out romantic sagas as they sip cocktails and nip bonbons, pray banish them…
Since beginning this prison term back in 2011, I have been about 99% convinced that I'd never see its end, that sometime over its interminable course the karmic wheel would spin around and call my…