A trippy new children’s story of sorts. Read it online at Feathertale.
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Author: rolliwrites
UPDATE: Cartoon Collections
All of my published cartoons are now available for licensing on Cartoon Collections. You should check them out.
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COVER REVEAL: Kabungo (Italian Edition)
Here’s the cover of the Italian edition of Kabungo, which finally goes to press next week. The subtitle means “My Prehistoric Friend.” 🙂
FLASH FICTION: “My Skull Broke”
I was sitting on a bench at the ballpark, rocking it back and forth. When Big Jam cracked the ball, I tried to get up but the bench tipped over forwards and I fell backwards.
The sun turned into sequins.
When I woke up, I was thirty-four years old. I couldn’t remember who I was or who my family was or where I was. I learned how to talk and walk again. I learned my alphabet again.
Big Jam visited me in the hospital. He was an old man now. He autographed a ball for me and closed my fingers around it. He hugged me and cried. I cried. Then I dropped the ball.
I can see color with my right eye, but only black and white with my other eye.
My mom’s trying to get more money for me from the Star City Recreation Board. $20,000 isn’t a lot…
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FLASH FICTION: The Hollow Spot in My Head Where a Bullet Used to Be
A brand-new short story. Published today in East of the Web. Read it here.
FLASH FICTION: Something
There was a woman. There is always a woman. A beautiful woman.
The life of any man is a burning, then a standing over ashes. Stirring and stirring, with his cane. I was young. And burning.
I was young…
*
We walked, evenings. This woman and I. For the days were too warm. When the sun went down, and the wind rose, and the moon, we walked. Through the town. Across the lawn, the green lawn of the museum. Behind the museum, where we would make love. We could not pass by, without doing so.
One evening…
We had been talking. I had been talking, and she had been listening. She listened attentively, but said nothing. There was a sadness about this woman that was no small part of her charm. She was never so sad, or so beautiful, as that evening.
I stopped. And I asked her … if there was something.
She did not answer. But asked me to keep walking. And speaking. Being in the mood for listening, but not speaking.
I continued, for a time. Then paused again.
The woman. In the moonlight, she was so beautiful. Yet … so melancholy.
I asked her again, if there was something.
She shook her head, only.
I wanted so badly for her to speak. To hear her. When you are in love, and young, only, it is a pleasure to listen. When you have forgotten about love, and so grown older, you cannot hear, and will not listen. You will talk a great deal, as before. But you will never again listen.
So I asked again. I took her by the shoulder, and turned her. For I knew there was something. There is always something.
I leaned in.
Then she said, “I am afraid … there is something.”
I listened. Watching her white teeth moving.
“There is something.”
*
We were walking home. We crossed the lawn, the dark lawn of the museum.
We kept walking.
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POEM FOR CHILDREN: Oughtabees
Rolli’s latest children’s book, Kabungo, won the Joan Betty Stuchner Funniest Children’s Book Award. His latest adult book, The Sea-Wave, was longlisted for the Saboteur Award. Follow Rolli on Twitter @rolliwrites.
