Gil A. Waters's Blog, page 2

Imaginary Friends

{…first appeared in the Clockwise Cat…} I was a bland and humorless child.   The causes of this condition are legion.  Start with the combed-over, slicked-down hair,  parted just above my left ear and extending in a single horrifying mass all the way to my right ear.  Throw in debilitating shyness, paralyzing social anxiety, and [...]

Politically Ill

While familiarity may breed contempt in some social circles, most people who get to know me are more commonly afflicted by morbid curiosity.  It takes only a few conversations of any depth before I find myself confronted by an inevitable question.  “So, what was it that turned you into such a depressed and bitter drug [...]

Plausible Undeniability

{…excerpted from a longer piece which first appeared in Spooky Action at a Distance…} Because I grew up in a bland, East Coast suburb far removed from my Midwestern roots, I rarely met any of my extended family members.  Of course, since the invention of the automobile and the airplane, geographical distance only goes so [...]

Imaginary Friends

{…excerpted from a longer piece which first appeared in the Clockwise Cat…} I was a bland and humorless child.  The causes of this condition are legion.  Start with the combed-over, slicked-down hair, parted just above my left ear and extending in a single horrifying mass all the way to my right ear.  Throw in debilitating [...]