Vampire Vocab

Note: I wrote this story for a friend of mine who doesn’t feel heard, doesn’t feel alive. It’s kind of a surrealist story, and is very much a metaphor, which is not my usual style. I don’t think it does my friend justice, but I hope…I hope it means something to her. Her back was [...]

I had two posts in mind for tonight. One was to be named “After”. It was going to be about our second performance, which was lovely. And it was going to be about the acting still involved afterwards. I was going to talk about how when Dad, or Mother, or our director greeted one of [...]

So, tonight was opening night for Cheaper by the Dozen, my play (well, not really MINE, I was a pretty minor part, but still). Anyway, we, my ensemble and myself, ROCKED IT. If I do say so myself. And the beautiful thing was, you could tell these were theater people, an ensemble, really and truly. [...]

I have an about page, of course. And my about page has barely changed over the years, save for my age, which was, for a very long time, still 13, until, at 15, I decided I had aged a year, and made it 14. But let me try again, because I feel like things change, [...]

Despite the misleading title, I’m not writing a story, not here, not now. But I will. I’m just blogging to say that I WILL. I’m trying to keep the story fire alive, to not let it go. Hence, I wrote in my ideas journal. I wrote here (for the first time in a while, sorry.) [...]

Today’s word: Thersitical (adj) Loud-mouthed or foul-mouthed The Sentence: The vampire opted to not consume the thersitical individual; he had old-fashioned sensibilities and he didn’t eat what he considered junk food.

I should be posting about how much I love my life. I do. But my nose is running and my throat is sore and my head aches and, despite an inordinate amount of sleep, I feel like I’m about to keel over. So yeah. Thanks for an awesome birthday celebration mommy, Denise, and Momal. I [...]

My Mommy called me a fire opal. My daddy took me to New Orleans. I cried for my mommy and I wrote all through math about NO for my daddy. I could write here for hours, let words fall into poetry, or stuff them into labored sentences to try and describe how I feel: recovering [...]

Today’s word was: Abulia (n) Loss of decision making ability And the sentence: The vampire, struck with abulia, couldn’t decide whether to bite the human or not.

I’m so happy! My English teacher is letting me do a word of the day for the class. Today’s word: Glossolalia (n) Incomprehensible speech uttered from a state of religious fervor or trance. And a sentence: The priest, scarred by the vampire attack, muttered glossolalia with wild eyes.