All poems and stories

  • Your time is your time, a poem

    You and everyone you know will die. All the stuff you collect and surround yourself with will belong to someone else in the future or will be considered junk and tossed. This is a fact. We don’t think about this fact daily; sometimes, decades go by without considering this ultimate ending. It makes sense not…

  • Lost phone, a short short story

    Note: I had a hard time keeping this one straight. I think I got it right. Jon lost his phone. He is sure of that. He looked everywhere for it: in his car, yard, and house. He called it a few times from his landline, but the call went straight to voicemail. Like a fool,…

  • Hans and Sabine, alive and kicking

  • Last date, a short short story

    Jody is going on a date. She is always going on dates. She is not a ‘working girl’ though. She works at a local grocer as a cashier. Jody is pretty. She has no problem finding dates. Dating apps make it easy to hook up. Men usually reach out to her. She knows that men…

  • Dark passenger, a poem

    Depression is insidious. It forms like a fog in your brain, obscuring your life and your feelings so slowly that you don’t even notice. You loose your way, you can’t see where you are and eventually you loose yourself. In the USA 21 million people experience depression at any given moment. That is a number…