The business proposal

from an email sent to me

Expectations

Young love in the fifties

THE KERFUFFLE OF THE MOTHER'S DAY BREAKFAST

Once upon a time, my sister, Helen, and I made breakfast in bed for our mum, because it was Mother's Day.
Cherry

The League of Beggars

The wondrous tale began with the sight of the beggar on the byways of that ancient town.

Phantom of Bohemia

Who might have doubted his eerie words as he spun his fantasy epic? Yet his avid listeners hearkened to the very words of the ballad of the Vampire of the Brod Manor House...

The Night Confided

The Night confided in me tonight And told me that he misses you; He told me nothing at all is right Unless the moon is kissing you. So I get to thinking– What’s so special

Framed

They listen to Mancini She cries, telling him How tough life has been For her—of exes long gone He gets the Kleenexes The fire is snapping and Roaring behind the grate

You Fall In Love

You tick So some call you ticker You beat And I call you beater Are you also, as you skip, A skipper? Or a pumper since you pump? Everyone knows you stop, But that doesn’t make you

Nirvana

I took my shoes off and entered into the room of darkness of which the shiny black satin slipped from her shoulder exposing the tender flesh hungered with living passion
Cherry

Eternally Yours

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