The Sleeping Witness
The Sleeping Witness
So often, are you as a blazing torch with flames of burning rags falling about you flaming,…
Diving for Pearls
Diving for Pearls The diving
The harvest
Pearls dying for pearls. The palette
The painting
True…
The Pitfalls of Writing Today
Pitfalls of Writing
One current ugly stumbling block for all writers these days to be ignored at all costs is the…
The Hole
Bone-Cracker roused to darkness and pain. Disoriented, he tried to remember where he was and why, but shock…
Lady Justice and the Assassin
Lady Justice and the Assassin
CHAPTER 3
The old warehouse in the West Bottoms had once been a small manufacturing…
American Poppy
I am not a British soldier
American am I
I fought for right and justice
I did not want to dieWars are…
Querent
The first resurrection is always the hardest
The charioteer runs behind the chariot
Riddles posed to us…
Moonlit Daisy
For my sister Renee (7/29/64 - 5/9/12), still the sun that dries up all the rain.Death comes barreling down the…
Criticality 1: Hostage Situation (Series Premiere)
Only a seemingly frail hand was exposed from underneath a heavy cotton blanket. Pete Rogue did not even make time…
Autism Diaries 2: The Things we Say
Autism Diaries 2
It's taken 3 years in Autism land to feel stronger about some of the things that are said in…
We Long for Peace
No need to retrace
Previous faults or disgrace
Just look ahead and think twice
How lovely, it could be …
Steven Soderbergh’s Twitter Novella
Steven Soderbergh's Twitter Novella
The 50-year-old Steven Soderbergh wrote 1989's Sex, Lies, and Videotape and…
The Third Amendment: Gabby Gifford
When a National TV show interviews a woman who was gunned down by the same gun she still holds in her hand, and she…
Armstacry
In days of old they too were found guilty of abuse, murder, throwing stones, and one after another the count would…
Rat Incense
This story is from the Nightmare Book. The nightmare was described by the Troll Queen Shadowtrollia in her personal…