Another piece written for me by a different person. Cuts you in half, leaves you adrift before making you whole again with only words. Who is he? The one. The one with burdened shoes of black who catches breath, erases thoughts, transforms smiles into cries cries into smiles. Who consumes my thoughts? Touch electrifies my …
Author: Fatesjoke
Aquamarine
I saw the piece of glitter as I was standing there bowl in front of me, seat lifted and a steady stream of urine from me into it. It flashed at me, aquamarine. The piece of glitter, not the urine. Once it might have been said that the sparkly bit of metal had fallen perhaps from the …
sitting on my hands
the faces of my youth grow old yet I believe that I remain ageless, immortal, and free from the dance of decay then the moment comes, that moment where I see that look in the eye of a girl I would have once too easily taken to bed the very same look I would have once …
stolen smiles
maybe it was you that came to me or perhaps I went to you, I am not sure who called to who but I dreamt of you last night I fell in love with your smile all over again, it was as if I had never seen it before just like the smell of you …
Radiator Whiskey
Venue: Radiator Whiskey Location: Seattle, WA Rating: 4.5/5 Pike’s Place on a Friday night is a busy place, even in January. But Radiator Whiskey, located on the 3rd floor of a shopping plaza, keep your dining experience free of the chaos of tourists and local shoppers. In place of that pedestrian experience you are thrust …
The Big- I Pub & Lounge
Fairbanks is a college town. Fairbanks is a town with a military base close by. Guess which category of patron seems to frequent this bar? Yeah, the latter. Now, I was visiting Alaska, I don’t live there, but my opinion of “The Big I” was shared with four other people that I mentioned the experience …
La Bocca Urban Pizzeria
Mill Ave in Tempe is a popular place, close to ASU’s Tempe campus and within stumbling distance of a score of dorms. As such there are a lot of restaurants and even more bars, some of each are good places to spend some time but there is not a place on Mill Ave that manages to do …
Lux Central
You are driving around uptown Phoenix and looking for a place to grab some coffee, or maybe you are looking for a trendy place to grab a bite to eat, maybe you have some people in from out of town and you want them to experience a part of the PHX culinary community or let’s …
Funerals are for the living
In his book, The Fault In Our Stars, John Green wrote that “Funerals…are for the living.” It is hard to argue against that perspective, the dead are gone and, regardless of your faith, beyond something so trivial. The point Green makes is that we, the living, use funerals (or memorials, services, celebrations of life, etc) …
My Grandpa, Darrell Capurro
Growing up, all I knew about my Grandma Mavis’ boyfriend was that they had been together almost as long as I had been alive and that he liked children to be seen, not heard. So when I ended up moving in with my grandma in third grade I remember feeling a little bit of apprehension …