Mat Twassel: Blog

In honor of secretaries, I'm posting a couple of little secretary stories, one of them from the poetic pen of Ashley.

I'm also putting up the third rehab story, this one written by Auguste, in which he charts his code blue experience.

This morning I posted three stories to a new Universe called Puzzles. It’s public, so feel free to use it for your own story or poem. The idea is that a puzzle should play an important role in the story. The puzzle might be a jigsaw puzzle, a crossword puzzle, a riddle, or really any sort of mystery, enigma, or conundrum.

If you’d like to have me attempt to illustrate your story, let me know.

In the seven years I knew Emma, I did more than a thousand pictures of her and put her in many hundreds of little stories, always with her blessing, often with her input. Not yet 35, Emma died earlier this year. I feel it necessary to celebrate Emma’s life. Her story is certainly more complicated and interesting and full of vitality than my portrayals. I do what I can. It seemed appropriate to me to post a little piece about Emma on Easter. I think she’d be tickled at the irreverence of it. But no matter what the season, day, year, Emma remains in my mind, ever fun, ever sexy, ever naughty, ever kind.

Just now I did another little “painting” of Emma. There’s no story for it, and there might not be, but for those of you interested in the image, you might find it here:

https://mmtwassel.wixsite.com/stories/emma-easter

By now you’ve probably all sprung forward, but just in case you’ve slept in, I’ve put up a little story today as a reminder. Coming up on the calendar is St. Patrick’s Day, so I’ve scheduled two stories I hope are appropriate. And then on March 18 in honor of the next full moon I’ve scheduled “Full Moon Trilogy,” which I think might be of interest to some because the illustration is one I did more than a dozen years ago.

My story this morning, The Big Dipper, includes a recipe for brownies concocted by an Artificial Intelligence engine. I've made several batches and enjoyed them very much. If you make some, let me know what you think.