Pulling You Down

When I was about 12 years old I was swimming in a gorgeous pool at a hotel in Mombasa. It was a lovely day the sky was blue and cloudless and the birds were chirping. I was staring up at that blue sky when all of a sudden I felt something. Turning around I saw, and...

So You Want to Be a Writer?

So You Want to Be a Writer By Charles Bukowski If it doesn’t come bursting out of you In spite of everything, Don’t do it. Unless it comes unasked out of your Heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, Don’t do it. If you have to sit for hours...

The Witching Hour

“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.” –...