It was a busy street where it all happened. At least that’s where my earliest memory begins. You know the kind of street, where cars whiz by fast, people of every description come, go, or stop a while, and the air is filled with more smells and sounds than the senses can take in. We [...]
A simple tale of five good friends and the human they befriended… Much to the surprise of many alive today, not all goblins were evil despite what ignorant folk may tell you, and yes they did exist until very recently. Take the case of Globular Van der Graff and his lifelong friends Makepeace Terranova, Byzantine [...]
Rae Anne Jamison and Landy Laurent have the kind of love most people envy–that is, except for Rae Anne’s father, a high-powered political figure in Texas. But she and Landy ignore her father’s complaints and focus on their upcoming wedding, planning it for when Landy returns from the newly declared Operation Desert Shield. Lonely and [...]
Oh help me won’t you please, I’m here, trapped inside this tree. Why won’t anyone help me? Please set me free I beg of you. I’ve been here slowly preparing for the day when I can finally be born. Woodsman o woodsman, please come and cut down my prison I beg you woodsman. Bring axe, [...]
She was quiet, she was tired, it seemed she was all head without a brain-she had gone frozen in the head- and to worsen her situation, she was hungry, homeless and it was January and the winter cold had gone insane and it was not going to be cured for another long months to come. [...]
…or The Illinois Wisconsin Border War. What is going on with the protests in Wisconsin is serious. I could not resist my silly side here though. For those who have read the writer Ogden Nash, consider this Ogden Nash on steroids and part of a warped imagination. No offense to anyone is meant. If you [...]
The jewellers on the crooked line of buildings in the small town of Wantchurch was exclusive. Angela Mottram rang the bell and was greeted by a man in a beige suit as two assistants leant over velvet in the display window. Pointing at a chair he answered the slimline phone at a desk. Another assistant [...]
Excerpt from children’s story collection Solar Girl and Lunar Boy. The drought had lasted many moons. Life’s energy on earth was slipping away. Mammals, reptiles and fish had perished in silent misery. Plants, grass and trees were nothing more than brittle, gray, useless matter. Every source of water was bone dry. Ponds, rivers, streams, lakes, [...]
I AM NOW BULLET-PROOF Why did I say those words? Why did I tell her that it was over between us? Pulling each of these syllables like as if I was pulling the rose’s blossoms and the unfortunate thing was that she had over-lived a definite six months in my life but an unwritten life [...]
