Stories November 9, 2009, 7:41 PM
by Slowboat Blackwell
it’s a life of few conveniences out here. carrying your whole life on your back is not so efficient.
Stories October 9, 2009, 1:55 PM
by Slowboat Blackwell
a ruse. a disguise. tell me lies, tuesday, tell me sweet little lies.
Stories September 26, 2009, 10:53 PM
by Slowboat Blackwell
Crepuscular – referring to animals primarily active during twilight, dawn and dusk.
i call them bear eyes, but really it’s the bear hour. there is a certain time of night when dusk blurs to dark. what’s left of the light makes the whole forest come alive. every tree, stump, rock and log threatens like a bear. [...]
Stories September 26, 2009, 10:45 PM
by Slowboat Blackwell
not all of stories from this summer (sometimes winter?) are so worrisome and epic. these are a few shorts from the good -can you believe that happened?- stories.
ps. greg salisbury is probably the nicest guy in encampment, wyoming. he’s also the town taxidermist, a welder on a gas pipeline, the only guy who would pick [...]
Stories September 26, 2009, 10:40 PM
by Slowboat Blackwell
my hands were worse. they would barely work and hardly hold the pencil (that i keep just in case the ink in my pen won’t flow.) i swear that even my brain was frozen. half of it anyway, the creative half. i could only write fragments in my journals. so. put away your reading glasses, [...]
Photos September 26, 2009, 2:13 PM
by Slowboat Blackwell
Good morning from twin lakes. I woke up early and walked outside. Beautiful. I heard everyone grumble. “valley thinks everything is beautiful,” as they rolled over to go back to bed. An hour later, a storm rolled in and it all went grey and frigid. “real beautiful morning, valley.” then I showed them the pictures [...]
Photos September 7, 2009, 2:32 AM
by Slowboat Blackwell
Photos September 7, 2009, 2:22 AM
by Slowboat Blackwell
Photos September 7, 2009, 2:19 AM
by Slowboat Blackwell
Photos September 7, 2009, 2:10 AM
by Slowboat Blackwell