Aubrey’s blog Vox 2009-11-07T02:31:13Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00ccff930f92d756/ What a dear, dear day! The Seven Seals tag:vox.com,2009-11-04:asset-6a00ccff930f92d75601240b73e66f860e 2009-11-04T05:16:05Z 2009-11-07T02:31:13Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Seal #1 Seal #2 Seal #3 Seal #4 Seal #5 Seals #6 and #7 Halloween Hats

"And behold, and lo," it was said. And thence came a creature empowered with seven horns, seven eyes and seven Spirits. And there were seven seals. The first seal... was Conquest: Boyfriend had an excellent day of surfing at Asilomar Beach. I c...

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]]> A Worn Memory tag:vox.com,2009-10-22:asset-6a00ccff930f92d7560123ddc755df860c 2009-10-22T07:49:13Z 2009-11-06T04:04:19Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

All Hallow's Eats Jammies For The Young Aubrey Fabric Fields

A couple of years ago, in late October, I wrote a post about the many incarnations I assumed for Halloween. I have photos as proof of the kangaroo, the gladiator, the geisha and gypsy that went from house to house on October 31, many years ago. ...

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]]> Caught By A Downpour tag:vox.com,2009-10-15:asset-6a00ccff930f92d7560123ddc36a41860c 2009-10-15T07:25:56Z 2009-10-16T16:54:38Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

WANT

The rain kept me awake the other night, galloping through the gray air like nervous horses. The water exploding against the ground had the sound of muscular hoofbeats and I couldn't close my eyes without seeing their wild, sparking eyes. In the ...

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]]> Locked Rooms tag:vox.com,2009-10-13:asset-6a00ccff930f92d7560123ddd60156860d 2009-10-13T07:10:03Z 2009-10-21T07:15:12Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Served, Serving, Servant Paradise Lost Faint Princess

I know how they used to visualize her. Weak and erotic, pliable and romantic, vaguely Eastern - she lay hidden in a locked room heavy with silks and thick perfumes. Her arms were flung about her head, lush and weak, and her body curved like a sa...

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]]> Flying Tigers, 1941 tag:vox.com,2009-10-07:asset-6a00ccff930f92d7560123f168ff31860f 2009-10-07T07:49:58Z 2009-10-13T14:50:03Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The In-Laws

The tiger was weary. All night it had been on the prowl, weaving past the wolves, dogs, bulls, lions and bears that lived in star-like reticence in the black sky. It forded rivers that spanned galaxies, startling the sleeping dragons whose scal...

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]]> The Finest Kill I Have Ever Seen tag:vox.com,2009-10-02:asset-6a00ccff930f92d75601240b636c54860e 2009-10-02T07:45:32Z 2009-10-05T22:12:23Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Best Death

It was not a true one. The blood was not thick and full of escaping life. The body did not remain on the ground, finite and still. It was not a real death. Yet it was the finest kill I have ever seen. I saw it in a movie. Now, I don't discus...

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]]> An Exotic Thief tag:vox.com,2009-09-29:asset-6a00ccff930f92d7560123dda6e8ef860b 2009-09-29T07:21:50Z 2009-10-02T16:38:23Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Thief

Her dress is woven from the nacreous shavings of oysters that lie skinned and dying on distant shores. All the colors from their interiors - the iridescent and curling skies - now covered her poised and snobbish body. But her dress still moved ...

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]]> Lunacy tag:vox.com,2009-09-23:asset-6a00ccff930f92d7560123f163ba15860f 2009-09-23T07:33:59Z 2009-10-12T14:37:28Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Aloft And Away Out Of Hiding

It is at this time of year, the final third, with the three-syllabeled months and early shadows that predict the quickening of its domain, that I feel its presence. Like the tides that feel the pricking of silver hooks in their watery skins, I a...

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]]> The Green Lady, Part II tag:vox.com,2009-09-17:asset-6a00ccff930f92d7560123ddb7e1aa860c 2009-09-17T03:35:15Z 2009-09-22T16:13:00Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

A Bleak Light

The border that separates Scotland from England runs harsh and ragged like a bloody spine. Many castles straddle that sorry backbone - a testament to the populations unable to look each other in the eye unless the steel glove of war pushes them ...

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]]> The Green Lady, Part I tag:vox.com,2009-09-10:asset-6a00ccff930f92d75601101694608c860c 2009-09-10T08:37:44Z 2009-09-17T02:56:55Z Aubrey http://thecaferoyal.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I have been reading an article on Aberdeen, a dour Scottish city that is nourished on rain and ghosts. Its silhouette is harsh and medieval, and it rides the eastern coast of Scotland like a battalion of granite knights. There was one ghost in p...

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