Chapter 7
Mattie went to work the next day, just not in the same way he expected. His mommy woke him up and changed him out of his night time diaper and into a dry daytime one. She slipped a onesie on over him and buttoned it between his legs, and put on some so...
2021-08-19 01:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post"You'll understand when you're a grown-up."
How many times have you heard that? You have no idea at this point.
Truly.
You've lost count. Of everything.
The diapers.
The bottles.
The high chair feedings.
The nights sleeping in a ...
2021-08-18 00:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of that Friday morning passed by without either open defiance or clever subversion. The rebellion that was ‘Why Day’, once quashed, turned into a bunch of quiet whines and attempts to suck-up in order to get...
2021-08-14 19:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostUploading a finished story. Also as far as I know my first foray into unbirthing and medical horror.
Also, fun fact. If you like Neal Shusterman you'll love the end of the first act, and vice versa.
An old Cushypen story, here for you to peruse. Set in the world of "The Struggle", an intern gets a flu shot with some unexpected side effects. Actually kind of a happy ending
2021-08-12 12:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6
“How does that feel?” Mommy asked Mattie.
Bad. It felt really bad. Mattie was shivering, achey, itchy, and very, very embarrassed. None of it good. He was shivering because he’d just gotten out of the tub. After nap time, Momm...
You're on the daycare playground having the bestest time! You're about to go play in the sandbox when...
You stop...
You look straight ahead...
You bend your knees a little...
You start to push...
As the mess oozes out of you and into the back of your pant...
“Pssst” Tommy whispered to me on our way out of the cafeteria after breakfast. “Clark.”
I snapped out of my haze and pivoted sideways as much as I could look at Tommy while still being forced to hold Ivy...
The Pastel Gift
Vampires don’t have many heroes, historically speaking. When one lives their unlife in the shadows, it’s very difficult to pick their own historical role models. Vampirism resulted in a secret society less like the Illuminati and more like t...
If I made merchandise; ie T-shirts; Novelty Books; Physical copies of already published stories; would you consider buying them?
2021-08-02 03:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
So here's a fun little side tour for y'all!
First off. SPOILERS! I did not draw this. Not even close. Not by a longshot.
This fantastic bit of art was done by Arkham Insanity and they were commissioned for their work.
Plea...
2021-08-02 02:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post
So here's a fun little side tour for y'all!
First off. SPOILERS! I did not draw this. Not even close. Not by a longshot.
This fantastic bit of art was done by Arkham Insanity and they were commissioned for their work.
Please please please support them!...
Thursday Night.
The television clicked off. The Muffets were on and Lita Coreno was about to do her famous rendition of ‘Fever’, arguably the bit that first made the show in Season 1. It was a classic, and some...
2021-07-31 21:38:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Storytime folks! So recently, yours truly happened to cross digital paths with a certain Lizzy James over on Twitter. We got to chatting it up and then she said something akin to "We should do a supervillain team up!" (Okay...I may be misremembering the EXACT language used, but you ge...
2021-07-30 23:35:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Storytime folks!
So recently, yours truly happened to cross digital paths with a certain Lizzy James over on Twitter. We got to chatting it up and then she said something akin to "We should do a supervillain team up!" (Okay...I may be misremembering the EXACT language used, bu...
Chapter 48: Mommy’s Boy.
Tommy woke up surrounded by crib bars. Rather than a shock, it was something of a pleasant surprise. It was a nice feeling, like being wrapped up and swaddled by the bed itself. Everywhere on his periphery he was guarded and saf...
Chapter 5
“Here’s your mail,” Mattie said, handing the bundle of letters to a very important grown-up at a desk. The grown-up didn’t didn’t look up; just handed Mattie a bit of outgoing mail.
“Here.”
Mattie was grateful for that. &n...
I cried all day that first Wednesday. It was spectacular! The best day I’d had at school since I’d come back. Big time fun and all it cost me was another sleepless night of telling Janet through the baby monitor how much s...
2021-07-24 19:43:33 +0000 UTC View Post"Who's a good baby?" The daycare lady coos at you. "Who's a good baby?" You are! You don't say it; you're too full of the giggles. She runs her fingers up your sides, tickling you like an eensy weensy spider and making you wriggle and kick on the changing table...
2021-07-20 13:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 47: Work Hard, Play Harder
I don't need a spotlight
I don't need a crowd
I don't need the great wide world
To shout my name out loud
Don't need fame or fortune
Nice as those things are
<...
2021-07-19 15:02:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4
WHAM’s one good non-Christmas song was being piped into the massive corporate office of PharmaCorp when Mattie began his rounds. Appropriate, because Matthew was full on jitterbugging and wide awake.
“Morning Karen! Morning Meredith!” Matti...
2021-07-18 11:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55: Technically...
Tuesday.
“Okie dokie, Clark,” Mrs. Beouf said to me. “For today, I want you to paint a frog, okie dokie?” I didn’t react. I just stood there at the easel, lightly nodding. “You can paint the frog any color you want,...
Chapter 54: Every Little Thing Falls Apart
“Are you sure you want to do this?” It was Janet, because of course it was. She’d coaxed my cooperation out of me by dangling this last meal in front of me and now she was trying to talk me out of it. “Thi...
2021-07-10 12:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostPeople think that love is patient. They think that love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It goes on a bit, all the great and benevolent things about love and how nice it is. ...
2021-07-04 03:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 46: Navel Gazing
“So what are we doing?” Charlie asked. “What game?”
He still looked a little uncomfortable given their recent conversation as to how and why he ended up in this eternal nursery. Tommy might have noticed it if he ha...
Chapter 3
“Shit!” Mattie cursed through clenched teeth. “Shit...shit...shit...shit…!” The sun was just barely cresting through the window of his Air BnB but Mattie had already been awake for a good fifteen minutes.
When his alarm had gone off, ...
Chapter 52: Anything but Child’s Play
Right after nap time I was taken out of the crib, checked, and lined up. All said, it was pretty fast. Only Jesse and Mandy ‘needed’ changing. Everyone else was either dry or ‘not that wet’’. A shame, the mean surviva...
2021-06-26 23:19:01 +0000 UTC View PostMommy and Daddy look at each other from across the gameboard. Game board? With hippos? Hippo board? Whatever. You're playing Hungry Hungry Hippos when their noses wrinkle and they look at each other. "It's your turn," Daddy says to Mommy.
You frown. There ...
2021-06-24 20:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45: Coming Distractions
Everybody's
Got the right
To be happy.
Don't stay mad,
Life's not as bad
As it seems.
If you keep your
Goal in sight,