fall – Slanted Spines

N.T. Ed and Margaret Decide to Have an Autumn Party

September 27, 2019September 26, 2019Posted in Comics, Tales of N.T. EdTagged autumn, black and white, comic, creative writing, fall, fiction, Halloween, season, short story, skeleton, Story, winter, winter blues2 Comments

N.T. Ed and Margaret Decide to Have an Autumn Party

Ned Theodore Ed, skull in the palm of his bony hand, looked out the window at the darkening early evening, and sighed.

Margaret noticed N.T. Ed’s shoulders silently heave and slump (for this was the way N.T. “sighed”) and paused her knitting. “What was that for?” Margaret asked, tilting her head and looking at N.T. over the top of her wire-rim reading glasses. They were sitting in Margaret’s living room, N.T. on the couch, and Margaret in her recliner; the lamps on her end tables produced an orangey, cozy hue as the light flickered off her hardwood interior.

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Lessons from Trees

November 2, 2018April 19, 2019Posted in PoemsTagged autumn, fall, nature, Poems, poetry, trees3 Comments

lessons from trees: i.

I spend a lot of time thinking about trees.
You took my hand once and cried,
“Look, there are roots beneath your skin!”
mapping the chutes of my veins with
your fingertips that were callused like bark.
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