seanessay.com From free falling down the rabbit hole, at Free Fall Friday prompt- what she said We were 8 years old, my cousin Connie and I. In the backyard, a drizzly day. I was looking down, but Connie was looking up. “We could go over to that chestnut tree,” she said. “Mom wouldn’t like it, […]
A Cluttered Cave, with Onion
seanessay.com Like you, I live in a cave. With more than one room, a stuccoed ceiling and with walls painted eggshell white: All the better to mount my paintings. But still, a cave. A container. A bowl holding my memories and hopes while offering a place to relax. But like you, maybe, I have something […]
Free Falling Through Snow and History
seanessay.com (over 900 words) Falling down the rabbit hole, writing on Free Fall Friday. prompt- transferred My values have transferred. Once, if I sincerely wanted the doctor to come, I would hitch up the horses to fetch him. But once we installed (lazy) telephones the doctor wisely declined. Call it a transfer of values, from […]
When Emotions Were Hard
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words) This week I clicked on a very successful blogger, who is also a voice actor and screen actor: Will Wheaton. (Link) I’m sure he’s a normal seeming fellow, and he has a past. Me too. His post is about speaking for the ACE resource network: Adverse Childhood Experiences, and their NumberStory.org […]
Doggie In A Box
seanessay.com Falling down the rabbit hole, we write as we fall, not knowing where our words or ourselves will end up… Today’s Free Fall Friday pieces are four: two lighter, then two heavier. prompt- I love you to death, …and/or a photo of a dog in a box “How much is that doggie in the […]
Sympathetic to Travellers, Hating Warriors
seanessay.com (under 900 words) “Hey, sailor!” A United Nations naval contingent steaming near Indonesia, in the future, has my sympathy. Especially as thousands of sailors and marines of several nations find themselves zapped through time, arriving in the mid-pacific, in darkness, there to tangle with the U.S. fleet steaming to fight the Battle of Midway. […]