Poetry by Gustave Deresse — I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking, looking things up, getting distracted in other tabs, eating, drinking water, smoking more weed, realizing I haven’t read Tabula Rasa in a while, and being pesky by tagging her in the process, which isn’t the coolest thing to do, especially considering I…

They’re not gods — Sweet cloacae! Do you want the truth? Need it? Firstly, you don’t always need the truth. But in this case, let’s say there are good reasons to care. After all, you could write and publish one thousand masterpieces tomorrow— but where’s the meaning of it, when your headlines go unclicked? …

with Gustave Deresse — 10. On Willful Gratuity 9. Your Passions Yearn For Freedom 8. The Twenty-Third Hollow 7. When Murder Solves Itself 6. The Peckish Beak of Count Aranthaes 5. Light Pierces Darkness — Not The Other Way Around 4. For All We Can See 3. Sacrificial 2. Transform Your Regrets Into Goals And Dreams 1. How A Cloud Gets Its Name

It depends on your perspective — Hey-hey Riley, what a wonderful comment and question; thank you dearly for asking! In all, it depends on whether we count time spent in between writing. My records indicate there was much switching between tasks as I wrote, but my subconscious may never have stopped processing on the subject. So…

by Gustave Deresse — The apocalypse. I mean — Dear reader, if I have to explain the joke, then you don’t belong here. I kid, because I can explain. For non-writers — readers? — on the platform: Writers are payed for the time you spend — at minimum — appearing to read our material. …

Plus a little more on conjunctions — Walked through the rain— jeans now caught around my ankles. 1. Thank you, Carolyn, for inviting me to the 10-word-story challenge following your own answer to the prompt. Dear reader, do check it out — Only the Moon And a question about conjunctionsmedium.com 2. I believe the conjunction technique may tell us a lot about a person. As per Carolyn’s example —