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  • Six of One–I Broke your Doomsday Clock – A Daily Post Sonnet

    I Broke Your Doomsday Clock. Six of one–oops, I broke your doomsday clock. Half a dozen of another smothered it good. Before the hands struck twelve o’clock, kaboom, into smithereens I hammered it leaving nothing left of your doomsday time device. That metaphor I retired and I did it all via smartphone today while in a… Read more

  • Photo-Fiction Challenge #2 – Sharks and Photo Ops

    Sharks and Photo Ops Too easy was our escape; the ship bucked, pitched and rolled from missile attack. That bitch gravity gave it a good slap. I tucked into webs of restraints and had to ditch. Into the sea I fell with alien friends and right into a school of sharks because we just couldn’t catch a break.… Read more

  • Dive and Shift

    Dive and Shift He leaps, falls, hits mirrored water, shifts– human skin flips to scales. Gills breathe water, exhale oxygen into blood; the shift continues, webs his fingers, toes. Water caresses his sleek new body as he swims. The current tugs him out to sea, its siren call he can’t resist. It carries him out into… Read more

  • Writing 101 Assignment 5 – Legacy

    Writing 101 Assignment 5 – Legacy

    “All that is gold does not glitter…” — JRR Tolkien Legacy (the Legend of the Curse Breaker) Not all gold glitters while some lies hidden. In caves deep and under waters sweet, bides that which can set all to right. Unbidden it rises from the depths to hand the guide knowledge true to right a wrong… Read more

  • Leaving on a Space Ship – A Daily Post Sonnet

    Leaving on a Space Ship – A Daily Post Sonnet

    Leaving on a Space Ship If I leave earth and trade it for the stars, never can I return home. The rocket’s red glare, escape velocity, no bar. past our planet’s dance in our space pocket, I go into outer space to explore, to boldly go where no woman has gone before. To sail the milky way, to soar… Read more

  • Flash Fiction Challenge – Zombies vs Healer

    Flash Fiction Challenge – Zombies vs Healer

       The Necromancer vs the Healer The necromancer raised them row by row, ripped from death’s sleep, the zombies sprang from graves. An army shambles bent on overthrow, its mauve-robed leader can’t ever be saved. Drawn by death’s cold touch and stench of decay, a healer comes with life’s power in his veins. His touch turns zombies to dust, and waylays the… Read more

  • Dawn – Writing 101 Assignment 4

    Dawn In quiet he sat, watched the rising light falling through stained glass to illuminate the church. Watched the dark driven out by light, a sun created to eradicate darkness wherever it falls. In the heart, under cloud, in church–wherever shadows linger, light shines and does battle apart from life flowing on the earth. On it glows, its mission… Read more

  • The Road Calls – Writing 101 Assignment 4

    The Road Calls I watched the sylvan world fade away. Through my long watch, cities rose up and fell. Ancient magic no longer holds sway. Now comes the day to bid a fond farewell. My watch is done when this day ends in night. Weep not, my friend, the sun’s last glimmer leads me home. Over hill and dale, through… Read more

  • Black Hole

    Black Hole

    Black Hole I write from a black hole, where I riddle. I’m slowly being spaghettified* by tidal forces’ stretch, squeeze to a noodle. Light can’t escape its pull; no last ditch fly by or rescue attempt. What the black hole catches, it keeps. It lets nothing escape save one thing its embrace can’t hold–my soul– its needs no velocity… Read more

  • Poetry 101 Rehab: Father

    Poetry 101 Rehab: Father

    Blocks Ran sat used Papa as a backrest while he stacked blocks woven from wild reeds. Magic rushed ’round under Papa’s skin; it beguiled the child listening to its rhythmic music. Magic beat with his heart and sometimes in counterpoint. Ran’s hair stood up; Papa’s arm draped across his lap securing him in place. Green sparks raced across… Read more