http://www.swordofstories.com/cos Sanity is not my strong suit Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:56:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tell me, have you read a good story lately?               I mean, a REALLY good story?  The kind that leaves you thanking God for the ability TO read?  The kind that has you all but convinced that you have met the characters that the story is woven around before?  Have you ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=26 December 27. 2001   The 'Phoenix' Complex               Her head was spinning.  It wasn't supposed to be this way!  When she'd first come here, she'd been convinced that things would work out somehow.  Somehow, a word she was coming to hate more and more each day.  Somehow, the word for fools and dreamers.  ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=25 Ending   There he stands-             the absentee father of a world forged in sludged             venerable slithers of an apocalyptic ash His face contorts,             threatens to vomit forth the immoral objections of night.   And she waits, waits, waits             already knowing the holy lies to come Her mind ready to twist graceless lies into a more ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=24 July 25, 2006   When Do I Get to Stop Feeling Like a Child?               When exactly does maturity kick in anyway?  And I'm asking in a serious, 'I want a real answer' type of capacity here.  It's a question that's only been bothering me for the last couple of days or so, ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=23 July 22, 2004   Miracles and Paperwork               Lady Senie here with another random brain fart.  To those of you that care I apologize that I haven't been around to chat and/or offer random comment on the boards over the past... two months?  Wow, has it really been that long?  Well anyway, I've ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=22 April 6, 2004   'Passion'ate Musings               So, I went and saw 'The Passion of the Christ' tonight.  You know, that 'horrible, violent movie' that Mel Gibson put out awhile ago.  You would have thought a religious zealot like myself would have been falling all over myself trying to force my way into ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=21 January 1, 2004   Resolutions are for the Timid         It's me again.  It's two in the morning.  You know, I've never been able to stay up this long?  I'm a morning person, really.  It's funny because all my closest friends - and obviously my fiancé, - are all night owls.  It's crazy ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=20 September 16, 2002   Hail the Nightmare   They fall, and They fall, and They fall And I hate it.   Not for the victims Not from the pain Not for the devastation   But for the replay.   Tears fall without utility I feel sick.   But for what purpose is this hollow repeat? What possible benefit does the constant reliving hold?   To 'move on' ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=19 Two souls touching, tasting one another for the first time.   In years, centuries, eons, or minutes they are unsure.  What soul can speak of time, what soul can grasp the meaning of a second or a month?    In their eagerness to find one another, the souls take on flesh.  Flesh ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=18             Man I hate going back into my past.  I hate pulling it apart layer by layer to get to the juicy center where motives and mentalities lay.  Where I find the long dead logic of a long dead girl and pray to God she doesn't quicken at my intrusion.  ... http://www.swordofstories.com/cos/?p=17