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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • You Are Brilliant!

    Let’s start over. I’ll be the teacher and you can be the writer. Come up with the first line then lean into the second. You are on your way to filling up a page with the progression of an idea you didn’t even know existed before those two lines. Now fill in the body of…

  • Sober for Good at the Goose Intervention

    Eric wants to walk through door number one, a tiny door he would never choose to enter without mounting courage or actually falling from grace.  The king riding the tallest steed throughout the kingdom tends to never duck his head to miss the astonishment of onlookers who have only heard him cussing on the turret…

  • Four Stones from a Guru

    Share five things you’re good at. I sauntered right up to the toughest guy on the block and told him to look at this little tiny jewel I have clasped in my hands here and when he did I kicked him in the shin so hard that he pummeled me into the ground until I…

  • Vanishing After the Performance of a Lifetime

    Why am I mourning myself when I have not vanished from my duties? Is it because I was never there in the first place to vanish? If I was never there to perform but most definitely was there in form I must have already begun to live right, to appear. There is no reason to…

  • Turn to Stone

    Look at me as I slither. Slither down the aisle of the chamber. The chamber is aligned with soldiers. Soldiers, look at my face. My face does not move like my tail. My tail is all they can see. They see me in their dreams. A dream is not what I am. I am the…