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  • If we were having coffee… Writing 101 #11

    If we were having coffee… Writing 101 #11

    Coffee Break If we were having coffee…I’d sip tea. Any fruity, herbal, variety will do. I’d tell you I’m working on three things: editing, writing and poetry. If we were having coffee…I’d sip tea, maybe cinnamon with some stevia. I would tell you that editing may be the toughest thing I’ve tackled since trivia. If we were… Read more

  • Belong

    Belong

    Belong Out of place and time, anachronism am I? Nowhere do I belong; nowhere to call my own. No time for criticism; no advice given because what is there to say? Does anyone truly belong anywhere? Or do we all long for some place to fit? Like puzzle pieces that long to reconnect to form a whole? Is… Read more

  • POETRY 101 REHAB: MISSING

    POETRY 101 REHAB: MISSING

    Missing “Head injury…might have amnesia…” The healer’s words still echoed scaring Ran, where he lay curled, fearing amnesia would take Papa away, like the bad man had tried to do. Holding his stuffed bear tight, he listened to Papa’s quiet breathing, willing him to wake, smile at the sight of his son. But unconsciousness’ plaything, Papa remained. Ran’s tears… Read more

  • Hate to Love: Dessert

    Hate to Love: Dessert

    Dessert Connoisseurs For breakfast and dinner, I eat dessert. That’s my guilty secret. Don’t tell a soul; I belong to a secret club. Dessert Connoisseurs it’s called. We use doughnut holes to get around, bet you didn’t know they warp space time. Just pop on through. Let physics rue the baker. His oven mangles the warp and weft of… Read more

  • Truth Slingers

    Truth Slingers

    Truth Slingers They sling truth from their quick hands, deal out facts, burn lies with their laser glare. A gesture kills bullshit, withers sales pitches, attacks deceit, slander–no matter its vesture. Their armor is truth and they shine a light to chase away shadows, banish darkness. Their presence reveals all secrets, ignites a fire that purifies, leaving kindness in their wake.… Read more

  • Beast of Cloud and Claw – One Word Photo Challenge

    Beast of Cloud and Claw On cloud-stacked feet it steals across the sky ready to stomp the sleeping mountain town. Its wings kick up a gale force wind to cry its coming on the morn. It’s swooping down from on high, its ridged back blots out the sun. Its shadow falls and blankets the valley. The… Read more

  • Spy Bubble – Photo-Fiction #12

    Spy Bubble She formed it in her palm, a translucent sphere, caressed by a rainbow sheen. It floated, carried by the breeze with her full consent. Higher it flew; it accelerated, heading towards the army’s lines. Eyes closed, she concentrated; her bubble bobbed o’er the mages’ camp. Through it she spies. Her lips move as she counts her foes. Trouble wears a… Read more

  • RSVP: Keysta at the Ball – A Daily Post Sonnet

    RSVP: Keysta at the Ball – A Daily Post Sonnet

    RSVP: Keysta at the Ball She watched the dancers twirl in their bright gowns. Plain she felt, a girl playing dress up, all ruffled, beribboned in a borrowed pink gown. Dancers wheeled past, all unknown; she stood tall, wondering which of the flouncing follies had the ear of her enemy. Whose spies floated on the strains of… Read more

  • The River Nirthal

    The River Nirthal

    The River Nirthal From border to border it runs swift, clear. Through mountain pass, down Osrailten’s shoulders, into Neverthrall’s inland sea, then tear off across valley and hill. Smooth boulders, babble at the enchanted trees standing on shore, dark and disapproving of its watery foe. Still onwards its running the mighty Nirthal River. Here it lazes as it… Read more

  • Frontiers – A Pic and a Word Challenge

    Frontiers – A Pic and a Word Challenge

    Frontier Mountains frame my home. They ripple across the dark horizon unable to cage the enchanted forest which spills across its flanks, spreads o’er the land. Magic wages its own war within that dark wood; explore it at your own peril. Misted mountains’ vista shows a hundred valleys and more melting into that last frontier. Explain… Read more