All poems and stories

  • Builders, a short story

    Jordan loves building things. When she was younger a family member gifted her a Meccano erector set. With this set you could build many different construction equipment models. She built everything that had plans supplied with the kit. After she built the various cranes, dozers, and dump trucks something clicked in her brain and she…

  • Used recliner, a short story

    Bob is cheap. If Bob could buy used floss he will.  He did not grow up poor, and as a kid he never went hungry. Bob’s frugality started when he was given a piggy bank as a child.  The first time he dropped a few coins into that piggy bank, and he heard the sound coins make…

  • goddess, a poem

    I was already in bed when this occurred to me. Why waste your time and love on an invisible, totally absent, possibly made up entity, when you can love and desire a real, live, warm blooded person. Go for the person, if you choose right you might even experience something divine. I immediately grabbed my…

  • Hans, an illustrated kids story

    I am messing around with WordPress and making illustrations with handwritten text. Don’t judge too harshly, this is the product of last Sunday afternoon.

  • Prayer, a poem

    What can I say about god? I call myself an atheist but the programming runs deep, so I struggle to even believe that there is no god, struggle with the same measure I had to believe in god when I tried. One thing is clear to me, we as humans are to blame for the…