I can smell the rain on your skin.

Chilled goose flesh beneath my fingertips, stray strands of your hair tangled within my roaming hands. You taste of rushing water, like the eternal wellspring of Life itself. Oh, gods in Heaven, the taste of you!

The wind has whipped your soaked shirt around your soft form, twisted amongst the curves of this divine wonderland that is revealed as I lift it up and off, over your head and onto the floor, a forgotten puddle.

Your eyes! Bright with fervent fires beneath ardent blue--first cobalt, then as azure as the sky above the darkened clouds that drop torrents of rain from the heavens, roaring against the tin roof of our country home. I could stay in your gaze for forever, my love, if you would but look into mine for so long...

I long to taste you, with a desire that starts in my weakening legs and strengthens my love for you as I pull you to me, my mouth on yours, hot and soft, velvet tongue against my own. There is no space between us, and yet I need you closer still...

To be continued, if anyone wants to read it...

She dims the room

and climbs into bed

as the party begins

inside of her head

A masquerade

where the masks are lifted,

facades put to rest,

and thoughts are sifted

She rummages to find

the best of the bad

the ugliest of the ugly

the maddest of the mad

Those are the shadows

that dance upon her walls

Happily waltzing

at her macabre ball

Deeper, deeper; I

drown in the essence of you.

Love pulls me under.

Brighter are my days,

wider are my smiles, my love,

for I am at peace.

Deeper, deeper; I

crawl into my shell, away

from all that was us.

A new survey conducted by the National Institute of Surveys revealed today that all surveys are pretty much pointless.

The survey took what was supposedly an accurate cross section of the population, but what was really just a sampling of bored people who had nothing better to do than respond to random internet surveys, and asked them their opinions on surveys.

Of the people surveyed, 63% of people said that they distrusted the results of surveys, 27 percent said they trusted surveys, and 10 percent of people said that they were only responding to the survey because there was a 15$ gift certificate to KFC included if they answered.   Surprisingly, an additional 4% responded affirmatively after the survey was over, which made us wonder if the survey team was really all that qualified.

In addition, most people who proofread and edited this article also found surveys pointless.

Do you seem to be on your phone or other electronic device regularly?  If so, you've probably heard the tell-tale warning that too much screen-time can have negative consequences.  Recent studies conducted by the Side Effects of Screen Organization (SESO) may have proven that theory.  SESO recently reported that, as part of their general screen studies, there seems to be a correlation between screen-time and success rates.  The majority of the studies took place on the university level.  SESO took two groups of students: one that would spend three hours of their day on a smart phone, and one that spent no time on a smart phone.  After a week, both groups were given a simple test.  It was reported that 94% of those who spent three hours a day on a smart phone made lower scores than those who did not.  This study was repeated using various different types of technology.  When a tablet or iPad was used in place of a phone, 89% of device users did more poorly.  In the case of a laptop computer, 67% of device users had lower scores.  The final electronic device that was used in the study was a television.  However, in this case, only 12% of device users made scores lower than those who did not use the device. 

Dr. Janis P. Hone, who was heading the studies, explained what this could mean for device users.  In her public statement representing SESO, she said the following:

"The evidence of [the] studies clearly shows the impact that these devices have on our bodies and minds.  This should be a wake-up call for those that use cellphones, tablets, iPads, computers, and any other device with which you stare at a screen.  This technology is proving to make us less successful in the real world.  Something needs to be done to end this epidemic of screen-obsessed device users."

Dr. Hone elaborated on her plan to reduce the number of those exposing themselves to large amounts of screen-time in her publication, The Technological Apocalypse: An Age of Screen Zombies.  This article can be found in SESO's scientific journal, The Affected. 

With this new information being released, it is hard to predict what the public's response will be.  What about you?  Will you give up your screen for success?

News outlets and media have taken the tech world by storm. Something that has been well met by the logged in population. Apple reports that almost all new apps being created and downloaded are for "informational" use.

So why the rise in local broadcasting stations and fake headlines? Is it just that the people are more connected so therefore more involved, or perhaps just disaster rubbernecking. A group of Stanford students had just this question.

"We wanted to know why all the sudden our friends watched the news" Axel Rose, an undergrad, said. Their study tried to connect the headlines to the people. "What stories they watched kind of matched their behaviors. So then we asked could news stories change someone."

The students in Stanford's Local News Study program then set to find out. They started to filter out different stories from the participants social media.

"We just changed what they saw."

What they found was shocking.

"The behaviors changed and the people that were once generally happy were now reacting differently. The most interesting thing was that the group exposed to negative and smear headlines were like hungover. Slow and groggy."

By the end of the twelve day experiment that group was showing signs of alcoholism. One participant is even listed as having "liver complications".

"We know they weren't drinking" Axel stated, "we monitored everything."

So click on those happy cat stories and read until you can't see. Stanford says they aren't sure what to do with the data they found.

"We see that there is a connection but we don't know where the connection is made."

Too many nasty news interviews can make you drunk, but not the good kind. Axel said there was no euphoria only the next morning sick to your stomach hangovers. So our advice is just stay on Prose.