Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Tim Barrus: for hiding this in the snow

    I used to ask the questions. Now, Pi is asking me the questions. There is something in his voice that wants to be wanted. – tim barrus

  2. Tim Barrus: The Woods of Cleopatra

    On Ponies Whatever nature is in its just causes, the winter will arrive. There is no such thing as an alignment that men do not stand still. Next to looking inward at what is interpreted as tragedy, I do not buy it. The last of the cringe and the plot

  3. Tim Barrus: Jared Leto

    I would not have minded if the book critic had taken issue with my work. But no. They always go after me as a human being. I am, of course, the monster, the criminal, the itinerant, the Boogeyman, Coyote. I will gladly take Coyote. The coyotes around my cabin eat…

  4. Tim Barrus: To Remove His Metaphorical Humanity From Him

    Now, he’s god. Those of us who lead kinda mundane lives can read this stuff about one old man – I call him IT to dehumanize him and to rob him of his humanity which will be a challenge because he has no humanity – and how he lives his

  5. Tim Barrus: Through Windows


  6. Tim Barrus and Alex

    This is where I get separated from the rest of you. I have the pills. This is Appalachia. Not Paris. The drugs are not a theory. They’re an option. It’s not politik or religious. A place only I know about. A forest not bulldozed under. When they find my bones,…

  7. IT HAS TO BEGIN SOMEWHERE U-S-U-A-L-L-Y EARLY


  8. Tim Barrus New York Times

    There are few male voices inside the mainly female sections at the New York Times which are assigned as Family, Family Values, Raising Children in a Religion, Raising Children Without a Religion, Day Care, Trauma at Day Care, Trauma at the New York Times, Rape Makes Guys Nervous Who Should…

  9. Steegstra

    We hated each other the moment we met. Steegstra was my Director, and I did as I was told. It was. I am not going to write. Her slave because I will not do it. She was my first French play. There would be others. There is something wrong when…

  10. Not Unlike the Wolves

    I have seen the wolves up close. Only because they allowed it. I had never made a hostile move or one that could be construed to be a threat. I had known wolves before. The clothes I wore, smelled of them. The wolves were cautious. No teeth yet. Wolves will…