All poems and stories

  • Mans best friend, a short story

    Oliver Twist Thompson, known as Olly to all, owns and operates a veterinarian clinic in Winnemucca Nevada. This city of almost eight thousand is intersected by interstate 80, and his clinic gets a lot of walk-in customers from travelers on their way to Tahoe or Vegas. The giant sign that advertises his location was a…

  • Hans and Sabine, a naughty raccoon, spaceships, dragons and living the dream

  • Walking, a poem

    I went for a walk on the hottest day of the year, so far. 96 Fahrenheit, 36 Celsius. Hot no matter how you measure it. As my feet competed to be in front my mind wandered, and I found myself thinking about an upcoming trip to South Africa. We left there at the start of…

  • Speed limit, a poem

    Cars kill forty thousand people every year in the USA. Guns are used to kill others on average twenty thousand times a year! Another twenty six thousand gun related deaths are suicide. Not counting suicides cars claim twice as many lives as guns. Here is the strange thing: if a person is reckless with a…

  • Hans, Sabine and a swan named Juan, a few other scenes and a flying machine