All poems and stories

  • Pink, a short short story

    The spaceship flickered in and out of visibility as it emerged from the ocean. The package has been delivered and primed. The craft disappeared again, momentarily outlined by moonlit seawater flowing over its vast body as it slowly rolled before rising into the night sky. It left the planet unnoticed, just as it had come,…

  • Hans and Sabine, yesterday, tomorrow and life in-between

  • The root of all evil, an opinion

    The first book of Timothy, chapter 6, verse 10 states that the love of money is the root of all evil. Wise words. But I disagree. In part because I am an atheist, more so because there is something else that is at play before money enters the picture. Money itself is just a tool.…

  • Miss you, a short short story

    My heart is not broken. It still beats normally. It is my mind that is a mess. A nest of “if, then, why, what” thoughts. Questions that never stop. Why did you leave? If only I did this, rather than that! How can I restore that which was lost? Can what is lost be salvaged?…

  • If you cannot let me be me, let me be!

    Life would be so much easier if it were not for people. They all try to conform to what is normal, but nobody knows what that is. I believe normal is this: people are strange. Many are often overly critical of others while giving themselves lots of leeway. Each one believes themselves to be the…