Blue
I started writing this piece about my friend Craig several years ago. I thought I had lost it, but I found it again as I was purging files this summer. [...]
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Nov, 2024
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Oct, 2024
Becoming a Crone
This is a reprint of another Halloween favorite. Enjoy! Pearl became a crone gradually. It started when she shed her pastel, party-mint-colored clothes, the pinks, the baby blues and [...]
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Oct, 2024
A Parable in Defense of Democracy
For decades there has been a debate about how government could and should raise money to pay for public services like schools and police protection, road maintenance and garbage [...]
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Oct, 2024
Interlude
Written with the prompts: wigwags are flashing, from clowns to canaries, love loves difficult things, when I break rules, late but kept driving, interlude, what am I doing, as timid [...]
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Oct, 2024
Schro and His Cat
Earlier this week while eating chocolate pastries with friends at a local coffee house, the subject came up of Physicist Erwin Shrodinger and his thought experiment involving a cat that [...]
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Sep, 2024
Peeking Ahead
Peeking Ahead Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: they stared at each other, never guess what we saw, the God of right there, keep peeking at, word [...]
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Sep, 2024
Equinox Thoughts
It’s been a weird summer. In fact, it’s been a weird summer regarding the word “weird,” so maybe in the interest of accuracy I should say it’s been an unusual [...]
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Sep, 2024
Shrinking in the Drought
Shrinking in the Drought Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: I am the walrus, oh baby it’s a wild world, breaking rocks in the hot sun, tonight, [...]
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Sep, 2024
Play Ball
Written with the prompt: one at a time please “One at a time please!” Marilyn heard a shrill, almost frantic request from a woman at the far end of the [...]
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Aug, 2024
Bread Cats
Another Summer Rerun from way back in 2019. After midnight the day-old loaves of bread in the bakery turn into slumbering cats. Some are brown and toasty, some white and [...]