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  • I Write Because…

    I Write Because…

    I Write Because I write ’cause I created characters, gave them lives and they want their stories told. I was lonely, so I made characters to keep me company–an army bold to slay my fears and friends to quell my tears. To my sibs, I told their epic stories. I developed their world for many years, happily writing most of a… Read more

  • Photo-fiction #10 – When Words Fail

    When Words Fail Words shifted on the page, jumped up, rearranged. Sarn wrestled them, tried to glean meaning from the handwritten letters so estranged from their spoken counterparts. Divining nothing from it, he looked out at the street but felt no desire to go abroad until his son climbed up and took a seat on the table. Sarn felt… Read more

  • Halloween

    Halloween

    Halloween Pumpkin faces blazing, death surrounded, their bright unbroken circle holding tight ‘gainst that specter’s might. Death’s skull face shrouded, his bones gleaming white on that hallowed night. Pumpkin faces blazing, windows alight, welcoming trick or treaters young and old, offering leave-stuffed frights and sweet delights on lawns where costumed scarecrows , their court hold. Death’s skeletal face leers… Read more

  • Trick or Trick: A Daily Post Sonnet

    Trick or Trick: A Daily Post Sonnet

    Trick or Trick The simplicity of it convinced Sarn that Miren’s plan was sound. The trick appealed to his sense of justice and what a yarn it’d make if they could pull it off. Afield he searched for leaves of three. That poison ivy which Nolo had warned him never to touch. He gave his babysitters a… Read more

  • A Treat for the Daily Post & Prompt Stomp

    A Treat for the Daily Post & Prompt Stomp

    Treat To Trick or treat, that’s the question on this Halloween eve. Engage in Candy Crush, wait for your ghouls to scare up candy bliss as they go house to house in the trick-treat-rush. Ambush rival kids with silly strings and toilet papier-mâché. When the night grows late, the moon’s watch is broken. We stand in costumed… Read more

  • Lady in Red vs Fate’s Queen

    Lady in Red In red she fled, lost her shoes on shifting sands. Towards the land of Phare, Fairest of lands, where Fate’s Queen, that dark beauty, is caring for her clan. In Mori Kana’s rust sand desert her palace lies ‘twixt life and dreams. A place Lady Red knows well. Into Fay’s hands she places her woes.… Read more

  • Imaginary Friend – A Daily Post Sonnet

    Imaginary Friend – A Daily Post Sonnet

    (Self Portrait) Imaginary Friend Imaginary friend, you gifted me a fantasy world full of creatures and introduced heroes, bards, mages and thee. We rode dragons, battled demons on sand beaches and vanquished evil wherever it roamed.  With a shining army marching, at my back, we took city streets over never fearing the darkness encroaching even when… Read more

  • In Your Desert – A Pic and a word Challenge Sonnet

    In Your Desert – A Pic and a word Challenge Sonnet

    In Your Desert Better is one day with you, than without you, even if that day is spent burning in the desert’s heat and going without bread or water because abandoning you isn’t an option. Forty days you’ll spend here and so will I. I’ll keep the vigil by your side, my King and my God, and… Read more

  • The Universe, A Comedy of Errors – A Daily Post Sonnet

    The Universe, A Comedy of Errors – A Daily Post Sonnet

    Comedy of Errors Physics differing, two universes bump together and their leaks are fallin’ into each. With eternal multiverse’s inflation, anything that can happen has happened, and will happen once again. Armed with a map of the cosmic micro- wave background, from light originatin’ at the start, the big bang set the macro world we inhabit spinning. Search many spawning pockets that mark ballooning… Read more

  • dark | side | thursday – Carry His Cross

    Carry His Cross Every step’s a struggle. Each breath’s a pain to draw in through cracked and bleeding lips pursed, catch that drop of sweat rolling down the plane of his face. He must go, ‘fore his heart bursts from the burden he carries, the cross bearing down on his shoulders with each step, each new sin heaped upon the rest.… Read more