Kenneth Bykerk
@kennethbykerk.bsky.social
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Single dad to autistic teenage daughter (as in semi-verbal DISABLED), live in a ghost town, am a live organ donor (best experience ever!), and write Weird Westerns and Pulp Horror to stay sane.
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For the perfect "Arizona flag photo" take it from Sunset Point. Still, thankfully, in Yavapai County
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Since were there already, why, if we're supposed to be a "Christian nation", haven't we had a single Jubilee in the entire history of this nation yet we pay and pay and pay with increasing debt?
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The word "based" has also, very quickly, rendered itself meaningless.
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The Tale will be titled "The Relics of Caleb Walsh". It follows a Tale previously published titled "The Journal of Caleb Walsh".

I have been experimenting with constrained writing. This will leave me 55 words and 2 phrases locked in specific locations I must write around.

It's pretty fun!
#writing
These are tonight's additional notes to a story in my "to do" list. Adding to the 2 pages of story notes I put down earlier, this is what popped into my head this evening. Basically, I will have three extended sonnets (rather than iambic pentameter, each line is X words long) within a Rondeau similarly formed (locked in words as well as 2 refrains of a specific phrase). The 3 Rondeau sections will cover our Hero's arrival to the location (a scene stolen from another Tale), his death and the torments suffered, and finally, his time in the creek stuck between stones and drowning anew each time the creek flowed.

Wish me luck!

STRUCTURE NOTE: (10-6-25)
Okay, I have an idea for combining a couple forms. This structure would make this story 2,744 words.
I am planning the story in 3 sections based off a Rondeau. If I do it at this length, the 13 “lines” of the Rondeau would be 196 words each with the 2 refrains being 98 words each.
Each Rondeau section will also contain within it a Sonnet.
Rondeau Section #1 will contain 980 words. The Sonnet lines will be every 70 words.
Rondeau Section #2 will contain 686 words. The Sonnet lines will be every 49 words.
Rondeau Section #3 will contain 1,078 words. The Sonnet lines will be every 77 words.
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There are very few things that might get me to, er, pray, but this is one of them.
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Well that was completely NOT they type of "after dark weed burning" I was expecting!
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She should just show up and take her seat and start working. Watch them try to stop her.
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So, um, those fitness standards?
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While I consider this a good entry for that title, have you considered Ted Nugent's library of music? I mean, he's the Kanye West of rock, for fuck's sake.
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Well, they did buy the tickets...
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shouldn't he be holding a parade for them like he did the Army? Or does he just not care?
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Look at that dumbass in the first frame holding his penis like he's in a movie! Fucking moron WILL miss like that. Show's he's never actually trained with a weapon more than masturbating to it.
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DEI

Diversity = E Pluribus Unum! Our fucking National Motto!
Equity = Check with your disabled and their parking spots. Ask them.
Inclusion = basic principles of Capitalism. If you want their money, include them.

Don't let them get away with just saying "DEI"

Make them define it word by word!
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It's not a great system, but I need her photo close!
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Isn't this supposed to wait until he's been dead for 5 years? Can we hurry that part up first?
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I wonder how many have actually had consensual sex
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In the fray, edged feet can dislocate kneecaps
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Yeah, true, but remember, she described him as a "matador" and a matador does everything he can to avoid the beast he's in the ring with and all he has to reply is a tiny sting.

I still say he's a virgin!
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Looks like someone who can't even get laid by his own wife.
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The Great Stone Face... I have loved this man since my high school art teacher decided one day to just play "The General" in class.
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I'm 9 years older than this motherfucker but he looks 9 years older than me! These people need to smoke more week, for fuck's sake!