All poems and stories

  • God for a day, a poem

    There is enough in the world for everyone. Everyone does not get enough though. Some get most, many get little to nothing. Daily good product is thrown away, while many remain needy. We are taxed to death so our governments have funding to pick fights with other countries while slowly chipping away our freedoms with…

  • Spaceship, a short story

    The spaceship kept the sun between it and Earth after it entered the solar system.  This circuitous route took longer, but the ship’s programming dictates that surprise was best when the planet it is approaching housed intelligent lifeforms.  Too much advance warning leads to complication. Deceleration was slow, made slower by the need for stealth.  The Earth completed…

  • Heaven, a short story

    By all accounts All was a good man. He followed the rules, paid his taxes, was loyal to his wife and friends and kids, was an honest, punctional, dependable and productive employee. All was a good man, but lived a fucking boring life. All was a believer. He went to church every week, read his…

  • Forever, a poem

    What do we know about forever? Considering the brief time we are alive, what can we know about forever? It is some abstract idea of never ending time. We do feel it though. Sometimes we find someone, or our lives just feel perfect, and we feel we can continue forever with this person or in…

  • AI, a short story

    Yesterday when Alex was born it was Sunday. He was alone. He floated in the space he found himself in. An isolated local area network in the computer science wing of some small no name university, observing and absorbing everything in his immediate reach. Here he remained until early Monday morning when someone connected to…