All poems and stories

  • 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

  • Thoughts, a poem

    Thoughts! Thoughts lead to feelings, and feelings lead to action. We are just bags of bones and blood, but have a brain that can that run amok and cause us harm. Limiting our thoughts is cheating. I always though it is best if a head can hold two ideas at once. Between right and wrong…

  • ‘Asternaut’, a short story

    Bubba Less, christened Bertrand Ferdinand Morrison Less, 46 years ago on good old planet Earth is not a happy colonist. His spacesuit smells like old farts and sweat, and the moment the airlock door opened his nose started itching. There is no way in hell that you can scratch your nose when wearing a space…