Zedlist – Part Fifteen
Colin was standing on a pebbled beach looking out to sea, wearing only a pair of skimpy swimming trunks, his pot belly exposed and sun burnt nose resembling an overcooked cocktail sausage. The warm...
Image Curve Blog
A Darker Shade of Merry: Unmasked
Christmas Poetry Billionaires on the cheap market streams of valley dreams to Walmart’s $9 hourly workers trampled on by covetous, just above the rubber-necking credit carding, forty hour weekly braille needing, maxed out,...
First Gift-Opening Without Dad
Contemporary Haibun Poem Frankie’s hands tear away the wrapping. Brown eyes widen; the corners of his mouth rise: joyful shouting begins. “A pillow pet! Thank you! It’s what I’ve always wanted!” I snap...
The Human Comedy: A Visit from St. Nicholas (to North Korea), or: “The Interview Before Christmas”
Short Satirical Stories (Based on “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore) ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through Pyongyang Not a civil liberty stirred; this was the wrong gang! The dissenters...
One Who’s You
I woke up with Jesus in my fist. He was a well-groomed, handsome brunette with modest beard and a perfectly symmetrical face. He wiggled free a little and said “You don’t believe in me.”...
Orange Contemplations
Christmas Poems Pumpkin love and Halloween goblins on the eve of ghostly party scenes. Tangerine sunsets for my veranda’s view while shades of cadmium Monarch butterflies float in autumn’s blossom skies for all...
December 24, 2014
It’s so nice to be here Leaned upon the other As we are wont to do Two souls beside each other on the couch It’s snowing? No, you’re just seeing things Lit by the...
Animal Dilemmas – Bat Fox
Short Story The Fox experienced feelings it never knew existed. The combination of reaching where nobody had reached before with the fresh blood of young birds had opened new horizons in its imagination. It...
The Baker, The Butcher and The Brewer, Part One: The Baker 24
Serial Fiction Novel Like the Old Masters depicting fictitious scenes, he also had a contemporary literary source. A giant boulder against a tiny rabbit, he thought. Fighting to death among giant watermelons! He smiled walking...
