Secret Vespers

A hundred years ago a clock stopped and its hands show the same hour and minute to the city forever. In the back of a stone house there is a crack in the window and a plaque beneath it reads the hour and minute of the damage. The moment you fall in love. They say [...]

└ Tags: futility, journeys, loss, love, promises, wishes, zeitgeist

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Living Invention

by Somerled on February 11, 2011 at 12:00 am

Posted In: Comic

Have you ever known you wanted to be with someone, and also known that it was completely crazy?

└ Tags: love, sketch

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The Expat

by Somerled on February 6, 2011 at 12:00 am

Posted In: Comic

lovers are not props to help you feel love

Have you ever met an old ex-pat in a foreign country, a refugee of lost love and a prospector of new chases? I am trying new forms. I am thinking of dropping computer type for handwriting. I am going to work on this for the next few episodes, and see where it goes.

└ Tags: colour, distance, futility, journeys, love

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I have not yet learned to sleep through the call to prayer

by Somerled on January 7, 2011 at 7:53 am

Posted In: Lovesick

I have not yet learned how to sleep through the call to prayer. It carries over the rooftops, ten thousand loudspeakers just out of sync, a rondo of monophonic voices that sweeps me into the seventh century. The call is both far and close; it is, like the Southern Cross, a whisper from another time. [...]

└ Tags: distance, futility, love, vespers, wishes, zeitgeist

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The Rat

by Somerled on November 22, 2010 at 2:43 pm

Posted In: Story

He appeared one day smack in the middle of the living room, and let me just say this: if it had been your apartment, your eyes he looked into as he twitched his adorable little whiskers, you would have adopted him, too. But Katherine was disgusted with me. “Kill it!” she shrieked the instant she [...]

└ Tags: animals, love, wishes, zeitgeist

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Need Springs

by Somerled on September 7, 2010 at 12:00 am

Posted In: Comic

Do you know anyone who makes codependence fun?

└ Tags: friendship, love, obsession

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Unlatching

by Somerled on May 21, 2010 at 12:00 am

Posted In: Comic

she trusts the men completely and herself not at all

Have you ever fallen out of love? Did it come suddenly, inexplicably, or did it sneak up on you? Were you out of love for a long time before even realizing?

└ Tags: confessions, love, photo

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ideas are never the problem

by Somerled on April 5, 2010 at 9:59 pm

Posted In: Lovesick

I haven’t been able to write. I have ideas, ideas are never the problem. Rather, ideas are exactly the problem: they keep me awake at night, sabotage any attempt to capture them, turn against me on the page. So I printed my old stories and cut them into pieces. I shuffled the small ones and [...]

└ Tags: distance, language, love, wishes, zeitgeist

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