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Dandelions

Dandelions

Dandelions Kurt sat cold at the end of his driveway, a bowl of sugary offerings for the children settled in his lap. He treasured Halloween, but the festivity was winding down. Night had completely fallen. Most of the children and parents had come and gone. Parents with children dressed as pirates and superheroes and princesses, […]

Escalade Dreams

Escalade Dreams

Escalade Dreams I’m intrigued by certain correlations. Sometimes I’m struck by bits of information and try to fit them together like pieces of a puzzle. The human puzzle, I guess you could (pretentiously) say. One of these bits is the obsession with the Cadillac Escalade. Heck, I probably shouldn’t care. There’s better things to think […]

The Gamble

The Gamble

The Gamble Fitzi went all in on four Queens/8 high. Jimmy beat him with a straight flush of hearts. He raked Fitzi’s chips into his pile. “You buying back in?” Jimmy asked. Jimmy had all the luck. It confounded Fitzi because Jimmy didn’t appear to be much of a man of God. He didn’t even […]

Lab-Grown Meat

Lab-Grown Meat

Lab-Grown Meat There’s an online petition to stop lab-grown meat from being served in schools. When I heard about it, I needed to know more. The petition lists reasons why serving lab-grown meat in schools is a bad idea. These reasons are kind of boring, so I scrolled down to where people have posted videos […]

Fingernails

Fingernails

Fingernails Sometimes, when I cross the line to Indiana, I stop at Howie’s truck stop diner for a pork tenderloin sandwich. See, I was born and raised in Indiana. Now I live just across the state line. But, because I’m a Hoosier by birth, when I go over to Indiana and pass by Howie’s, I […]

Feral Child
poetic ramblings, poetry

Feral Child

Feral Child a feral child reared by goats wolves or monkeys will not know what it is to be man … Continue reading Feral Child

Common Sense
poetic ramblings, poetry

Common Sense

Common Sense as kids there was one a few years older than us that i looked up to since he … Continue reading Common Sense

Submissive
poetry

Submissive

Submissive the weak and submissive delightfully yield to the prefab rules of a god or gods the submissive delightfully yield … Continue reading Submissive

Butterfly
poetry

Butterfly

Butterfly the obsession for capturing some essence of some artform hope the obsession never leaves you and hope you never … Continue reading Butterfly

Poetic Excretion
poetry

Poetic Excretion

Poetic Excretion the first obstacle find something that confounds you find something that spellbinds you then while pinching your nose … Continue reading Poetic Excretion

Fireworks
fictional stories, literary fiction, stories

Fireworks

Fireworks I can hear the bangs and blasts on the 4th of July. And the flashes of the celebration burst … Continue reading Fireworks

Cooked Rook
fictional stories, literary fiction, stories

Cooked Rook

Cooked Rook The embers were almost dead. The pot and the stew and the husband and wife were still warm. … Continue reading Cooked Rook

Dead
mostly true stories

Dead

Dead My father just notified me a kid I grew up with had been shot dead. Apparently, there was some … Continue reading Dead

Eggnog
poetry

Eggnog

Eggnog i drank a half quart of eggnog mixed with cognac and got a decent buzz but i left the … Continue reading Eggnog

Afraid
poetry

Afraid

Afraid yes i’m afraid of the odor of the cigarettes left to stink in the coffee cup yes i’m afraid … Continue reading Afraid

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