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Death
Death is just another oneOf those thingsLike air and pop musicThat cannot be avoided Sleep doesn’t replicate deathAny more than it answers the question:Why am I so tired? When I was just a boyAnswers weren’t just availableThey also made perfect sense And love was the easiest one of them allBecause it answered everythingEven death Read more
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The Furthest Adventures of Joe & Skirl – Flash Fiction Friday
Her cheeks were enough to give an atheist pause for thought. Could anything that wasn’t divine produce such things? Of course, Joe’s rational mind told him; of course the deliberate force of evolution could fashion the perfect roundness and softness of Victoria’s cheeks. But his heart was not convinced. His heart believed she’d come straight Read more
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Catskill Sketchbook
Bell on the deck The Catskill Mountains are a magic place. Washington Irving’s famous tale Rip Van Winkle begins this way: “Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling Read more
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Girl – Mike’s Musical Monday
I may be a little long in the tooth to be singing about a “girl” without coming off creepy but I couldn’t resist taking a crack at this bit of genius songwriting from my favorite band, The Beatles. Don’t we all know a girl, or a woman (or a boy, or a man, for that Read more
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Bastard in Distress – Flash Fiction Friday
My latest post over at The Not Safe is “Bastard in Distress.” Read more
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One Day (At A Time)
I’m running a little low on inspiration this week. It happens. It’s not like I’m not surrounded by towering mountains of inspiration, because I am, but sometimes it’s hard to see the mountains through the fog. The one constant source of inspiration, invisible as the air and unthinking as a beating heart, is love. So Read more
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