Matthew Harris

“Apple Of My Eye for you to reedsy whole thing” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #11

Shana Aubrey Harris (youngest of deux darling daughters), whose existence begat by this dada and da mama. Aye revel in your bursting at figurative seams! viz maturation, and discern by communicating courtesy private line telepathically, your aura, charisma, karma credit... finds me blinking back tear ducts ready to loose water works i.e. cry. Why? I feel ecstatic, magic, rhapsodic... how fate gifted this papa. Mine existence would be devoid without you, and forsaken without purposefulness, should cruel, horrible punishment undermined existen...

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“Harnie artful Carny and Dinnie, whose doth winnie with horse sense...” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #10

Accorded beatific cachet regarding best boyhood buddies appellation, while their surrogate anonymous scrivener trails behind. Though figments (i.e. modestly unassumingly wise extensions) dwelling solely within imaginary realm, they actually never shied away coming to the rescue of yours truly. Series of unfortunate events (with Lemony Snicket at the helm ) on the other hand... finds me... ha... invariably tangled within the whirled wide web of illimitable, imponderable, incomprehensible... stream of consciousness reedy bulrushes. Thus on...

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“My extraordinary bourgeois lifestyle cause célèbre changing circumstances” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #9

Adulation commencement begat unexpectedly late in life, and continues to this date - September 27th, 20xx. The following "FAKE" prevarication elaborated, embellished, expounded... before being trumpeted as lame excuse for pulp fiction. Ever since initial debut (jumble of skinny arms and legs sliding and slipping down Harriet Harris berth canal out the womb) on that unforgettably brutally cold Friday January 13th, 19xx unusual fatuous fanfare arose for this common male. An arduous and complicated denouement purportedly contributed to subs...

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“ Morris Kuritsky breached in a berth with Miss Universe alias Hulk Helen” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #8

This "FAKE" non existent author admits prevarication when he went figuratively, literally and need dull aye say more - metaphorically bobbin along while willy steamboat (housing him and other passengers coursed merrily along destination unknown. Hmm.. me thought maybe the outer limits of the twilight zone. Prosaic license blithely nudged, stitched, and wove upon the scantiest clad warp and woof. The threadbare (seam ming lee) believable swiftly tailored (harriedly styled) story predicated upon conjured paranormal phenomena points in one dire...

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“Ostracized Boy with big longing Ostrich eyes... ” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #7

feels 'e got gypped coursing adrift down banks of the Nile No book learning known while this lil scribe longing for Fay M. Lee. She iz hot! The only pseudo education I acquired (about female anatomy and physiology...?) flowed naturally being schooled courtesy longest river in the world. Earliest recollections find yours truly (comfortably nestled within artfully made arc cake looking craft, i.e. balled rocky bulrush – off sturdy limb wicker basket) meandering entire length of the Nile River. Fingers slip and slide thru her... Answers to ...

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“Reedsy Village... next stop Reedsy Village” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #6

Outer limits of infinite twilight zone spanning bajillion miles across Milky Way galaxy offered regularly scheduled business and/or leisure treks. This being the year 2319 anno domini, an intricate sophisticated network system linkedin easy access to travel avast distance anywhere premiering a damn trumpeting don, plus agent provocateur 99 Hulu darkness my old friend, who supposedly wanted to flickr godaddy hotmail within world wide web, or black hole if feeling funk. Automobiles and fossil fuels long since relegated to the dustbin of histor...

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“Mad crush for Miss Rainbow...” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #5

A smidgen less than two score and half years ago, this then sixth grader (at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School located in Evansburg, Pennsylvania) underwent a visible transformation. As a socially outcast (podcasts, instagram, facebook... nor other social media yet to be invented or conceived), painfully shy, tremendously withdrawn prepubescent, my existence practically invisible. Never sought out to bolster any reign dear team, nor stroked as the teachers’ pet, I figuratively donned an invisible cloak. In essence, I played a constant meta...

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“Thalassic waters mystique - entrance this lifelong landlubber” by Matthew Harris

Submitted to Contest #4

Oft times this mountain man intrigued to step no closer to the sea than the Earth's defining coastlines. Ironically enough, the vagaries of near infinite watery expanse captivates, beckons and allures this Aegean inhabitant no closer than the wavering edge, where Poseidon doth kiss Gaea. Nonetheless motivation, inspiration activation to craft epistles kickstarts, infuses, gushes... analogously from humongous fountainhead. Far from madding crowds, this sensate being remains content hearing, smelling, tasting, touching (marks closest lim...

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“Ruminations upon approaching my 100th birthday – while still able to scooch, sidle, shimmy, snuggle, squat..” by Matthew Harris

January thirteenth deux thousand and fifty nine only x number months away. Courtesy of global warming the howl of old man winter long fostered, linkedin, relegated... to the meteorological dustbin of Earth's history. This indignity to enraged Gaia. Subsequently she gingerly foisted upon bipedal critters blistering, scorching, withering,...temperatures. Hellacious for any fool who dared to amble, ferry, scuttle..., across the crusty burnt offering mantle of said oblate spheroid basically, essentially (and literally) liquidated the once divers...

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