Jimmy pulled the bag off of his head. He stood up. He headed for the door. When it opened, he wasn’t sure what to expect. Time travel was his latest fad. How to do it, what the effects are like. At first glimpse it just looked as if he had pushed open the door of [...]
No one noticed when she fell
through ice.
A white picket fence keeps
me away.
I feel your wings .
You flutter toward the barn
passing the statue of the
Blessed Virgin Mary.
For many of you this article will be too provocative, too disturbing and simply unpopular. For the faint of hearts, stop reading now. Beginning with the infamous 2008 indictment of Casey Anthony for the homicide of her beautiful toddler to the recent South Florida tragedies including the parents that brutally beat their three year-old child [...]
Clarence Willis had little or no regard for his life and the family that he would soon leave behind. Worried about his motorcycle buddies, the pranks and stunts they encouraged him and others to attempt, Clarence Willis ended his life in less than a grand fashion. Legacy’s are important and imagine finding your great great [...]
The snow sparkled brilliantly, like billions of miniature carefully polished diamonds, unblemished, perfect, save for three crimson drops staining its otherwise untouched beauty. A soft wind blew, gently touching the sparkling snow, caressing over the three stains blemishing its pristine whiteness, and was gone, carrying its despicable news. Downwind a dog sniffed the air, his [...]
Excerpt from Solar Girl and Lunar Boy. Toward the end of my academic studies I began to obediently panic about my future. “Where would I go? What would I do? Who was I? What would become of me? Would anybody care?” They were never-ending questions of my age, without any answers except for one. I [...]
“Tony! I need the hammer!” - “What?!” Tony yelled back, as he poured another bucket of hot tar on the smoldering flat roof. The hammer!” Mike shouted, from the other side of the remodeled two-story home. “It’s on the edge, by the gutter!” Tony looked behind him and saw the tool lying on its side. He put [...]
I wait in the car play
with the crank out window,
slip my fingers over
the steering wheel –
feel where a horn plays
music, feel a knob
which turns on wind shield
wipers – a knob –
to twist for headlights -
For me, and maybe for you too, admitting to being an unpublished writer is sort of a little bit like admitting to having contracted some disease in some bizarre circumstance. However, here I am, admitting to the wonderful readership of this blog that I am an unpublished writer; further to this that I’m oddly proud [...]
My mom’s life was not about money, vacations or expensive cars. She did not need diamonds, furs or high-end furniture or to live in a mansion although she deserved all those things and much more. She always said that she was the richest mother and woman on this earth because she had the most wonderful [...]
