Nighttime in the switching yards of London, a cyborg struts, hips swaying, her target’s locked. The gun implanted in her hand’s ready to fire. A pack of crooked werewolf lawyers howl for money as she sashays toward them. “Keep me in your heart, yeah right.” Said the headless gunner, shaking her hand to disengage the safety. She accidentally died like a martyr, torn apart by wolves. Technology brought her back wired with a new purpose. This steel rose won’t fall ’til every last bullet’s spent. Want to add a dose of zaniness to your inbox? Sign up here and we’ll schedule an invasion soon. … Continue reading Last gunfight of the steel rose

#writtenriver “Promise me you’ll come back, Papa.” His son would ask for the one promise he couldn’t make w/out modifying. The More Epic V #TastyPoem How can you countenance failure wen it means the end of the world as we know it? #haikuthrowdown #mdspoemaday4 use glass animals stare The shopkeeper hums a tune His hand guides the cloth #CStarPrompts Her mission done The steel rose fell A jewel spiraled down 2 a photohraphic finish 4 her storied carrier Protecting our skies #MSpoetry A team of professional liars is earth’s only hope Can they swindle aliens out of destroying our world … Continue reading Promise me…

#IntrigueVerse From Vertical to the Vertigo stagger tripping from the optical Illusion Real 3-D, virtual reality messing with my light head. L’alchimiste A bewitching dance from beaker to flame steady hands tame the philosophers’ stone turn lead to gold as Hypatia foretold #DimpleVerse Nephthys, Lady of the House Daughter of Nut & Geb, spread your falcon wings protect us as we descend into death & ascend to rebirth. Death’s web catches all souls spider up the silk strands spinnerets spitting Filaments crisscross the starry night catching ghosts earth’s not theirs to roam Trapped in a glass tube sleep comes, carries … Continue reading A bewitching dance from beaker to flame

#lunagemz Always swirls just out of reach Like the happily ever after Disney promised there’s no prince charming No crown for this princess. #SummerPoems Summer lips shimmer Glossy hair bounces toes dig into warm sand The sun smiles on bikini clad hips Rolling with the waves #inkMine Pretty little liars With plastic smiles Operate pretty hate machines making all pretty Put the scalpel down I’d rather be unique. #becomingfragile A soldier’s silence hides a heart with shrapnel scars, stitched together by brotherhood. #madverse Her gunslinger smile kept his eyes focused on her trigger finger He never saw the stiletto sheathed … Continue reading Always swirls just out of reach

How can I summarize those sultry SUMMER EYES? I’ve got 90 seconds to try before blasting off into the wide blue yonder. #SummerPoems Winter slept in her smile Frosted her fingertips in spikes made her colder than the methane seas of Titan but she was our goddess. #inpoems #TastyPoem From this vantage I see which army has the advantage It isn’t mine. Magic crackles, flares Do I dare return To face death & defeat? #DarkLines Evil shadows the soul Never allowing its sunny side to go far Without hearing its whispered proclamations of doom. Can a plastic world addicted to … Continue reading Winter slept in her smile

#writtenriver Moved by inspiration I create worlds tuck them between pages Wrap them in a cover Deliver the completed tale For your delight. #kissedwrists love’s art form Inks calligraphic swirls Tattoos swatches watermarking his skin Copyrighting it So it can’t be plagiarized #lionsighs Two fighters bow pirouette twirl deadly blades sending chocolate chips flying onto lace tablecloths where two cuisines collide. #NatureVerse #MSpoetry #TheSmellOfWords A sweet synthesis in a soft cocoon We lay on Eiderdown & Gave into insatiable urges. #TastyPoem I sip blackberry Sangria While studying star charts Searching for a new world Somewhere to land the Intrepid colony … Continue reading A sweet synthesis in a soft cocoon

#BentHalos We’re the dust of stars. One day we’ll rejoin their fires & form new worlds, new civilizations. From dust to life, we’ll live again. #writtenriver Break the mold Spread your roots Grow beyond your wildest dreams. #hangtenstories Even the wisest seek wisdom From horizons beyond their own. Continue reading From dust to life, we’ll live again

#kissedwrists An opening door A shaft of light Highlights the unfolding error Of an illicit affair To the eye of the spurned spouse. #TastyPoem exposed No cover in sight Enemy sniper’s got me dead to rights Drop & roll Bullets strike Kick up dust & blood Still breathing Safe #MSpoetry Warnings blare Interlopers dare our defenses Plasma canons swivel Track Target locked Fire when ready XO sighs Another one dies #SableSwanV Staccato tones Intone my doom Arrhythmic beating Makes me swoon My heart’s aflutter Twitterpated For the drummer Keeping death’s time Continue reading A sniper’s Kissed wrists

#becomingfragile You aren’t your skin You’re the force animating it, the blazing intellect setting the world on fire. Shine on. When it seems like the end, Reach out take my hand Stars may fall But I’ll fly you home Safe in my arms Where dreams belong #DSpoetry #btsbbmas #BeautizmLove craving your hands I search Find no fingers to hold No touch to soothe No hand to grasp Only a lonely road Rising to the sky Poets love in beauty Crush in secret Wrapped in nostalgia For loves long past #DimpleVerse I feel the undeniable urge To stoke the fire Watch … Continue reading Moonlight blades & falling stars

The luna blade was supposed to cut through anything. Apparently, anything didn’t include the metal doors I was whacking away at or its shimmering runes. Maybe I should have respected the ‘off limits’ sign. Too late now to worry. “What’s the plan?” “To get out of here.” Whack. Whack. Ding. “Damn it.” “Don’t know if you noticed, but Plan A isn’t working. What’s plan B?” Planning wasn’t my thing. Squeezing into places I shouldn’t go—like the inner sanctum of a Mechanica compound—was more my style hence my current dilemma. Why wasn’t there a window or an air duct? Didn’t these … Continue reading Design Flaw Complicates Escape

Gone in a rush of angel’s wings– no apologies no final goodbye just a wreaked friendship & 13 dead. – The More Epic V #BeautizmLove Continue reading Gone

#becomingfragile My sister lost too soon to the storms of life. Now she glides thru the firmament–an angel watching over me. RIP sis 1984-2014 #horrorprompt O great infector Supreme necromancer King of zombies Bringer of Necrosis to the organics What is thy command? Continue reading Scattered bits

Hi Readers, When you last saw us, I held an egg-sized crystal our author (Melinda) had dropped, so its facets caught the glow of Papa’s green eyes showering the forest in words. And you lucky readers, we gave you a copy of the first 12 chapters of Curse Breaker: Enchanted [The More Epic Version]! You don’t have to pull words from a stone. You can click here to download a preview now. Choose your version: ePub, Mobi, PDF. And now back to our story… I leaned my head against Papa’s shoulder tired out from running away from a dragon. Content to be held, I … Continue reading Your FREE Preview & Our Latest Shenanigans

We are dust spiraling into the blue dusk As we rise to the cosmos to rejoin the stars #ForeverInMyHeart #DusklightAngels 🖤 Dusk’s dying light is but a memory of angels in flight, scattering star dust & carrying those loved & lost #DimpleVerse #DusklightAngels Remember when we lay in pools of lambent light wrapped in the quiet yearning of youth 1 life we lived w/o regret RIP my ❤ 4ever #madverse Continue reading Star dust

faithless destiny, Fiery webs of foretelling,   spun by the deft spinnerets Of the Final Fate’s Spidery daughter #whileshesleeps #DSpoetry  #intrigueverse Peel back her facade, Reveal the city that molded her And the depths of its pain. #hangtenstories  Her face launched a thousand ships, his destroyed them all. A clockwork Alice slings Serrated playing cards They slice & dice A top hat falls In its brim a card’s tucked 1/3 mad it says as she dons it #BentHalos blindfolds hide his glowing eyes he skulks thru shadows Cloaked, cowled always sought Never found Hidden from death’s sword CurseBreaker #becomingfragile In … Continue reading Edge of madness