All poems and stories

  • Pieces and parts, a poem

    I have never fully known how to just ‘be’. There was always someone to tell me I was doing it ‘wrong’. Later in life, I realized they were also in the same boat, and part of their journey was to find fault in others, allowing them to procrastinate on their own development. Most outgrow this.…

  • The root of all evil, a short story

    The world has gone to shit. Ok, not the world. It is still the same rock spinning through space. People have gone to shit. Sally knows this because she watches the news. Some television networks will demonize a particular political group, while others retaliate and attack the political group that their competition seems to support.…

  • Things that rhyme just fine, a poem.

    Things that rhyme with birth;Worth,Earth,Girth,Berth,Dearth, Mirth.School!Cruel, Pool,Rule,Tool,Drool,Fool.Work!Clerk,Smirk,Perk,Shirk, Schlock, Buttock.Life!Wife,Fife,Strife,Connive, Survive, Knife.Death!Breath,Health,Wealth,Meth, Depth, Expireth.

  • Meteor shower, a short short story

    The cow did not look right. It labored to walk. The extra limbs that grew out of its sides seem to move on their own accord, getting in the way. Sue saw the cow stumble past the kitchen window. ‘There’s a break in the fence again, ‘ she says over her shoulder before resuming her…