Do You Know Your Enemy?

Damn, yesterday was tough. Work went long for a Monday, so by the time I got home I had time to grab dinner, watch thirty minutes of television and go to sleep. It wasn't a 'red letter' day by any stretch. Matter of fact; yesterday sucked....hard.

However, it is Tuesday and another new beginning. Tomorrow my wife goes in for surgery for her acid reflux and a recently discovered hiatal hernia. She's out of work for a week and a half, at least, depending on well the surgery goes. So tomorrow I'll be taking the day off from work and sitting at the hospital with her. The bad news is, that my wife's having very painful surgery. The good news is, that I get to spend most of the day writing! At least there's something good to come out it.

So this weekend I was at Kroger, picking up some food wares for my wife and her very particular appetite. On the way out, I made it a point to stop by the surprisingly robust book/magazine section, which sported a wide variety of stuff. I like to stop by and pick up a random book here and there. I flip open the cover, read a few lines and nine times out of ten think, "Man, this stuff isn't any better than mine." It makes me feel good and reassures me that most authors aren't that great, anyway. I mean, don't get me wrong; they're good, but they're not 'from another planet' good.

After I stroked my ego a bit, I perused the book selection to see what stocked the shelves in the way of young adult fiction. And son of a gun, half the books were about vampires. I mean, haven't we just about had it with the vampires? I guess back in the early to mid 90s we had the Anne Rice craze and a slew of new vampire flicks to accompany the media onslaught of the undead. Now of course it's 'Twilight,' and about five other new series with werewolves and the like. And I picked-up, "New Moon," one of Stephanie Meyer's books, and I'll tell you what; Stephen King had it right. Stephanie Meyer does suck.

"Oh, he touched me, and the electricity shot through my body as my hands quivered against the unearthly cool embrace of his silken touch..."

See! Anybody can do it!

Until next time...