Oh Glory

Oh Glory How you delight there Spectacular divine You dazzle me I cannot say How layered in frothy light glow I marvel still Breath-taking stand Ecstatic to catch sight of you But know… Continue reading →

Hole in my Shirt

“If only I had a needle.” “What for?” “Then I could sew this. I hate having a hole.” “But that’s the fun of it. The concert is where you got the hole in… Continue reading →

At Day’s End

Colour: lime green and burnished red blend, intertwine facing blue spruceness and the towering hulk of oak crowded by a craggy cedar. Dragonflies: Their lifelike existence as seen only in the light emitted,… Continue reading →

Novel Update #15: 777 Writing Challenge

Yesterday, I was surprised to see that I had been nominated to participate in an interesting writing challenge. My dear blogger friend Susan Lattwein of Putting in a Good Word… selected me to… Continue reading →

FrAGmeNted

My Mother broke every plate in the house that day. She wouldn’t speak to me. She just kept grabbing plates from the cupboard and smashing them into shards on the tiled floor. I… Continue reading →

Why Today?

I wasn’t going to go to the bank today. I was going to wait until Friday. Why the hell did I go today? The man with the blue-and-white-striped ski mask keeps telling us… Continue reading →

My Novel in One-syllable

Sam work. Bad thing. Guest there not see. Fear fast clean. Talk leave. Stew. Play. Drink. Fun. Then sick. Dread. Friend knows. Wife no. Sick bad. Doc tests. Not good. Death near. Bye… Continue reading →

A Story in A B C’s

At the corner of the street I’d see her. Bright as usual, she lit up her front yard. Cars whizzed by but she didn’t pay attention. “Did she even know I was there?”… Continue reading →

In the Dark

Mary sat in the dark. The torrential rain pounding the living room windows made her uneasy. If she didn’t know any better she would have thought something was trying to smash its way… Continue reading →

An Invitation…

My son has given me a Writing challenge: “Invitation.” Use that word and write something. 🙂 So here it goes… Excitement awaits The lure of fanciful expectations Intertwine in a medley of anticipation… Continue reading →