Posts Tagged ‘New Judah’

My Own Personal Gotham

Posted: 10th May 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Ruminations
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Apologies to Depeche Mode…I really shouldn’t abscond with and alter a lyric from their very fine song “Personal Jesus” just to make a catchy headline. And with respect to New York City…no, you’re not the Gotham I’m referring to. As most of you reading this probably know (or likely you wouldn’t be at a blog […]

Love and Darkness and My Sidearm

Posted: 14th April 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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Title of this story comes courtesy of a line from Moby’s song “Southside,” though I doubt the overall lyrics themselves did much to inspire the story _________________________________________ She was hugging him fiercely, gratitude seeming to ooze from every pore of her body—and he hated it. Don’t touch me! he screamed in his head, visions of […]

Passings and Risings

Posted: 8th April 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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A rabbi stood up in the conference room, at the end of the table, standing before a trio of other rabbis, several Christians pastors—two Catholic and four others from various Protestant faiths—a nun, two Muslim imams, a Buddhist cleric and a Wiccan priestess. “I appreciate you all coming to this meeting on such short notice,” […]

Fly Away, Fairy

Posted: 6th April 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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A vision of lacy, frilly, girly splendor in the darkness. A pale blur against the backdrop of small night-shadowed park spaces and commercial buildings. A lithe, springing, satin-winged form running and skipping in the moonlight. The night was her time. The time of sleep and the time when the Tooth Fairy wandered. Even before she […]

The Gathering Storm, Part 26

Posted: 30th March 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm series
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[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] The road stretched before Query, but he traveled it slowly. If there’s a metaphor in there, I’ll just go ahead and ignore it, he thought. Too many people attach too much meaning to roads. Road trips as spiritual journeys. Intersections as […]

[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] She’d known he was coming—she’d been alerted by phone. But apparently he’d also been warned she was on edge. All for the best, Zoe supposed, as she heard a twig snap in the distance and a youthful, jovial voice calling out […]

The Gathering Storm, Part 24

Posted: 22nd March 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm series
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[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Stale stifling blackness. Spinning bouncing. Smells—Greasy sweaty green. Sensations—rough, warm, damp, gritty. No room to move; can’t focus. What? Where? How? Drifting. Panic. Sleepy. Weak. Angry. Terrified. I will no go…I will not…gone…go…quietly. * * * “Dash! Please tell me you’re […]

The Gathering Storm, Part 23

Posted: 19th March 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm series
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[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Darkness is a comforting shroud. A sturdy cloak. Those thoughts passed through the mind of Query, sitting in the semi-darkness of the club as Milo Phillips, while various pairs of rappers took their turns on stage to do a bit of […]

The Gathering Storm, Part 22

Posted: 10th March 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in The Gathering Storm series
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[ – To view a list of all current chapters, click here – ] Cole looked out across the devastation of the main gathering area at the Guardian Corps’ central headquarters. In some senses, it didn’t look that much different than normal. It wasn’t as if the Corps had deep pockets. They survived mostly by […]

Curiosity Thrills the Cat

Posted: 4th March 2012 by Jeff Bouley / Deacon Blue in Single-run ("One off") Stories
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Damned hair, Alan Millos silently muttered, scratching at the tightly curled black toupee that currently adorned his scalp and then pushing the pair of thoroughly non-functional glasses back up to the bridge of his nose. I don’t know how Donald Trump does it every day, all day long with that monstrosity on his head. One […]