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stories, verse and odds and ends · 15 pieces
The Kettle
On the 27th day of the last month of the year, Eldred Scott Merryweather found himself running out of Walmart, screaming. Never having been much of a Christmas shopper, he'd decided to venture into…
read →The Color Not in the Rainbow
No bow of seven ever shows The color it seems no one knows. Green, red, and yellow don't come near To matching with the color clear . It bends the light and let's it…
read →New Beginning
Throughout my life I've found it true that every end's a gateway to a new beginning. So looking forward's what I choose, to focus not on what I lose, but what I'm winning.
read →Community
I look at certain people and think, "They need a major attitude shift." I understand, however, that they think the same of me. Is anyone right? If no one's right -- and no one…
read →June
I grab a can of Red Bull Blue from the fridge by the register at the 7-11 in Camp Hill, Alabama, and add it to the pork rinds I already have on the counter.…
read →Sadness
Sadness reminds me of the happiness that was, and distracts me from the happiness that can be. Should I ignore the sadness or embrace it, use it to propel me to the future?
read →It's Just Love
(a song lyric) what's the thing that lifts me when I'm blue? it's just love it's just love what's the thing that helps me make it through? it's just love it's just love when…
read →Love After 30
A rhyming story in 500 words or less. While stumbling 'round my little town, quite down on life and drunk on wine, I spot a shimmer on the ground, and bend to see my…
read →masks
we ask for truth but we don't really want it we prefer the masks we recognize so authenticity suffers for the sake of comfort we are all liars some are demonized others are celebrated…
read →Trick or Treat
'Tis Trick or Treat, the season screams, but that's a false dilemma. For Tricks _are_ Treats, not sep'rate things, in Halloween cin-EM-a. To claim the choice is one of two is fair to no…
read →Iambic Love
How can I bear the loneliness I feel? Locked up in my apartment for so long, I start to think my world's become unreal, and everything seems lost or somehow gone. But then Your…
read →We can't have nice things
Drinks on wood table: We can't have nice things. Wine spilled on carpet: We can't have nice things. Couch used as scratch post: We can't have nice things. Phone dropped on stone floor: We…
read →Bubbles
I shared champagne with you at the show, then the music stopped. Love like a Molotov cocktail. I drank it. It splattered my guts against the wall! You like a battle- ship. I sank…
read →Ironic Cat
My neighbors have a pickup truck. They also have a cat. I see the cat every day sleeping on the hood of the truck, on the roof of the truck, under the truck, but…
read →Did it rain?
I see droplets on windshields, but despite these beads of evidence, the essence of rain evades my senses. There's no cool air, no petrichor, no standing water, no dampness of any kind. Only droplets…
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