Love letter

To the most beautiful girl in the world,

I’m sorry that I had to leave you so soon, but I promise that I’ll see you again on the other side. I’ve always loved you, even when I was too scared to say it. I know you loved me as well. My one regret was not kissing you when I had the chance. I promise to make up for it. I’ll shower you in my love for all eternity.

Don’t cry for me. You must be strong, not for me, or even for yourself, but for the man you call husband. He can never see this letter. Our love must be kept a secret until it is the only one that matters. Go now, and be strong through the pain.

Remember that I’ll always love you in death, just as I always have in life.

Untill we meet again,
Mrs. Robinson

Too long

It’s been way too long since I wrote on here. I plan on writing more now that I know I can access it from Alicia’s blackberry and not have to visit the in-law’s everytime I want to post on here. I have a few flashes written out long hand that I’ll post soon, but this is just a life update.

I moved this last February into a mobile home. It’s one bedroom larger than the town house we were renting but it’s also cheaper per month to own this than to rent the old place. The extra space is so nice.

I started writing a book. I’m about thirty pages into a spelunking sci-fi adventure. I’m hoping to actually be able to publish this one, and not just self-publish on lulu. Don’t know the first thing about getting it published though, but I’ll burn that bridge when I come to it. Right now I just want to finish writing it. Of course at the rate that I write, that will still be like six months.

Not much else to write about now. I’m gonna try to keep the flashes and short stories coming and not let this slip so far out of date again.

Here’s to a new beginning!

Angel of Death 6

Beside the Angel today was a little girl. She looked to be maybe four years old. She wasn’t. She was technically zero according usuall standards of counting age, but in reality she was twenty-six weeks old. She just hadn’t had a “birth” day yet. The little girl had curly black hair, and the sweetest most innocent eyes. She never knew a bit of pain, only the happy, black wetness of her mother’s womb. But right now her innocent eyes were full of worry. She looked to the Angel and said, “April?”

“Yes sweety?” the Angel answered.

“Mommy looks like she’s in trouble. What’s wrong with her?”

“She had a stroke, baby.”

“Will she be coming with us today?”

“No baby, she has a lot of good left to do down here.”

“Oh, OK.”

“Come on Random, we need to get going. Your grandpa is waiting for you on the other side.”

“What’s Grandpa like?”

“He’s a good man. You’ll really like him.”

“What’s it like in heaven?”

“You ask a lot of questions.”

“Cut me some slack! This is the first time I’ve seen anything but blackness.”

“All right, I’ll give you that.”

“Thank you… But you still didn’t answer my question.”

I love you Random. I miss you.

Up to no good

Well, Alicia is pregnant again! We don’t know yet if it’s going to be a girl or a boy, but definitely the last If it’s a girl we’re going to name her Random Isabella Lynn Weirick. If it’s a boy, we’re going to name him Chance, but we haven’t decided on the middle names yet. Can you tell we’re wanting a girl? Either way, Random/Chance lived up to her/his name. Alicia passed out at work and got a cuncussion, so the next day we took her to the ER because she could barely stand she was still dizzy. A few hours and a few tests later, the doctor tells us she’s pregnant and her uteris pressing on an artery caused her to pass out. She’s ok now though. She’s due March 21, 2009. We’re a little scared, but overall, excited.

In other news, I’ve opened a store on Etsy.com. It’s called Recycled Chic, and I sell mostely jewelry made out of things like pop tabs, junk mail, and such. Check it out and maybe buy something!

Alicia made me do it!

Ok. I don’t have a computer so I don’t update. Sue me. Nonetheless, Alicia insists that I do post an update for you all.

Let’s see. Alicia’s job did get extended. She has to complete a ten week training course (paid), and she’s still technically employed through a temp service. But it usually takes at least six months to get hired in to the company, and she can work through the temp service indefinitely now instead of having a four week cap.

I’ve just been a stay at home dad. I have been working in my spare time on a book that has been in the work for the last two years called Eternity. I’m about half-way done. I hope it won’t take me another two years to finish the second half, but who knows.

Right now I’m sitting at my mother-in-law’s house because my house is getting sprayed for roaches. I tried when I first noticed them to get rid of them myself, and it hasn’t worked. So after fighting with my land lord for several weeks I finally got her to spray the apartment. I have two hours left to wait for it to be safe, but at least I don’t have to worry about them anymore, thank God.

Ok, not much else that I can think of for now, so until next time!

Income at last

My wife got a job yesterday! We finally have income after two months of scraping for every dime to make ends meet. It’s only a temp job scheduled for four weeks, but there is a good chance that her job will be extended indefinitely. She’s actually making more money than I was at my old job so that is very good. It looks like I will get to be a stay at home dad, which is very good because I love spending time with my two little munch kins.

In book news, the only person who bought my book was my mom. Which honestly doesn’t surprise me. I didn’t really think that people would be too excited about buying a book of stories that they could read for free here, but I thought I would give it a try.

As always, I know that I don’t write a lot of stuff here, but I have a lot going on in my life right now. The blog has had to take a back seat to the rest of my life. I’m sorry to the very few loyal readers who look forward to when I post, but I gotta take care of real life before I can spend time taking care of my hobby.

New book

Lots of news since last time I posted. I found out Monday that my job laid me off, permanently. Alicia was also fired from her job about a month ago because she had to have a limited availability because of child care. So now my family has no source of income so we are trying very hard to find new jobs. I just finished applying for unemployment this morning, so that might help with some of the bills, but we could really use your prayers right now.

On a lighter note, however, I’ve used the free time to publish a book using Lulu.com. The book is called Wounded Souls. The book is a collection of flashes that I have previously published here and on “365 Tomorrows.” It’s nothing new, but I hope that some of you will like to have a copy of those flashes printed with some nice cover art, courtesy of my lovely wife. The book is 60 pages including the Creative Commons license text. The price tag is $9.95, which is honestly more than I would like to charge for the book, but that’s the lowest price that I could charge and still make a reasonable profit using Lulu. Check it out if you get the chance, and please consider buying it.

Bad Weather

I just had a very interesting experience on the way to work. It has been snowing all night long and put down a few inches of snow. The highways weren’t good but I figured that I could still get to work just fine, and I didn’t have any points to use to call off either way. I was almost there and going the speed limit on the highway when I tried to change lanes back into the right lane and my back wheels hit a patch of slushy snow. I fish tailed and went off the road. I didn’t hurt, or hit, anything, but I had to call off work (my boss gave me a vacation day considering the circumstances). I managed to drive my car back around enough to be only about 10 feet from the highway and got stuck on ice. I had my mom bring my wife out and attempt to help me out, but before she got there five cars, one cop, and a tow truck had stopped to help me. I told the cars to go on, and the cop insisted on staying until my mom got there to make sure that we could push the car out. The tow truck showed up only about a minute before my mom, so my wife just paid him the $50 to tow me out onto the highway. I was expecting the cop to give me a ticket for failure to control vehicle, but I was just about 200 feet from the city limits so he had no jurisdiction. Judging by my skid marks on the highway I was only about 10 feet from hitting the city limits sign and a few others right next to it. I guess I have a lot to be thankful for today.

New Pictures

Just letting you all know that I got a new camera and have posted a ton of new pictures and should be posting even more soon.

Hot Summer Days

With his eyes closed, Mark felt the warm sun on his face. The heat brought back memories of his childhood, when he would run and play in summer days. But just a few months ago he thought that he would never feel the heat of the sun again. The boys over at Sky Reclamation Service, however, could do miracles. It was the first sunlight that earth had experienced since the nuclear war ended three years ago. Eternal winter finally gave way to new summer.

Of course, there still weren’t any green plants, and other animals were no where to be found. But Genetic Reclamation Service was already at work on bringing them back. Even if they never succeeded, Mark was happy just being able to feel the sun on his pale skin again after all these years.

Mark inhaled deeply. Yup, the air still smelled like he remembered it, nauseating, but at least he didn’t have to breath with a mask over his face anymore.

Mark opened his eyes and saw the ocean out in front of him slowly beginning to thaw in the light of the new sun. Mankind had put earth through hell, but that was over now. He knew that he would live to once again see more hot summer days.