A Place Like This

By ice rivers

 

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Plural is Singular

By ice rivers on Sun, 17 Jan 2016

Roses are red Violets are blue I'm a schizophrenic And so am I So what the hell is a couple of weird guys like us doing in a nice place like this. As...
Spiritual
Rant
Opinion
Other
Certificate PG

Singulars are Plural

By ice rivers on Sun, 17 Jan 2016

The doctors asked the old question in a new way. "what's the difference between ignorance and apathy?" We answered the new question in our old way. "...
Story
Certificate PG

We Waited Faithfully on the Surface

By ice rivers on Mon, 18 Jan 2016

Old is what happened before, new is what happened after. Even in a place like this. We waited and we tried to glide on the surface, we could save our...
Story
Certificate PG

Charley Parker Played the Sax

By ice rivers on Tue, 19 Jan 2016

With all this cryptic shit goin' on...it's pretty clear we need some music in a place like this at a time like this before the big reveal. Charley...
Surreal
Rant
Historical Fiction
Biography
Love
Other
Certificate PG

Secrets and Faith

By ice rivers on Sat, 23 Jan 2016

Here's the secret about cryptic writing. Cryptic writing is about secrets. A secret often begins with a suspicion. We seek to reality test that...
Story
Certificate PG

1582 AD

By ice rivers on Sat, 14 May 2016

I refuse to be discouraged. Fitbit can have that effect. Fitbit keeps track of how many steps I take each day. I set the goal and go for it. I used...
Journal
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Certificate U

Glimmerglass at Sunset

By ice rivers on Thu, 02 Jun 2016

8:29 in the evening on the shore of Blackbird Bay. Watching the sunset on Lake Otsego at the spot James Fenimore Cooper, the Pathfinder and the...
Spiritual
Nature
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

We Get Older

By ice rivers on Sat, 18 Mar 2017

When we use our logic to convince ourselves, we possess conviction and with that conviction we can convince others. When we live each day with...
Philosophy
Other
Certificate 12

" ? ! ? " is Ice Rivers

By ice rivers on Mon, 20 Mar 2017

We don't know where we came from. We don't know where we're going to. But in between, we think we know where we are and "we" try like hell to hold on...
Surreal
Rant
Unclassified
Philosophy
Other
Certificate PG

"Air Quotes" in Lipstick Land

By ice rivers on Tue, 21 Mar 2017

"It' has frequently been argued that there are too many "air quotes" at work in written renditions of solipsistic" lipstick land". "Lipstick land" is...
Quotations
Rant
Philosophy
Other
Certificate PG

Yes We Kant

By ice rivers on Thu, 18 May 2017

Yesterday, while looking at the latest pictures of earth from Mars...... Before I continue let's just stop a minute and consider that particular...
Nature
Non-fiction
Certificate 12

Drunk Enough to Be Honest

By ice rivers on Sat, 20 May 2017

Not too long ago I was walking down the memory lane of glory days on a phone call with a failure in a trailer who in his current unstable incarnation...
Non-fiction
Certificate 18

To Daughter Mary

By ice rivers on Wed, 24 May 2017

Yes, Mary Dear. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly...
Philosophy
Children's
Opinion
Love
Non-fiction
Certificate 15

June

By ice rivers on Mon, 12 Jun 2017

All winter long we wait for better weather and summer. Because summer starts so late in June, we tend to overrate this month in anticipation and...
Nature
Story
Certificate 15

Toasting the Sky

By ice rivers on Mon, 11 Dec 2017

two years ago today I found out I had cancer. We hoped that radiation was the answer. A year ago today they told me I'd survive. Today, have a toast...
Love
Poem
Certificate 15
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A Distant Twinkle for Mary

By ice rivers on Thu, 27 Dec 2018

I chose my Christmas gift 25 years before I was born. I chose wisely. On that day, Mary Keenan, who had just arrived bag and baggage in Rochester,...
Love
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Story
Certificate 15

Little Hamish

By ice rivers on Tue, 05 Mar 2019

Hamish is the youngest of the McGregor grandchidren. He is five years old. He has two older brothers and two older sisters. His eldest sibling is Eva...
Humour
Story
Certificate 15

The Night My Mother Didn't Die

By ice rivers on Mon, 03 Jun 2019

I hoped tonight would be the night. I was there in the chair next to her bed. I was listening to her breathe her morphine breaths, praying that I...
Spiritual
Love
Non-fiction
Certificate 18