My Life Is a Shadow of My Horoscope (an excerpt from my book, The Kind-Hearted Smartass)

That's right. Each and every day, I read my horoscope and that's how I plan my day. I also have a lifetime supply of fortune cookies, where I will follow their advice on a daily basis.

The spoiled child

A thought that came to me while watching a spoiled child get what she wants.

lijaw

love is just a word, and like two plus two can only be four, four letters can not be more than their combination. love is just good marketing, contrived for the benefit of few,

Thomas Stearnes' Pilgrimage to East Coker

An examination of the life and work of Thomas Stearnes Eliot of the Eliot family, originally from East Coker, Somerset, England.
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Bandages

I need you to squish my face between your hands and push out a breath but you left

Dragon Hit the Roof (Unreported)

Parts of this story appeared on abctales before. Here it is in complete and reworked form. 湖北省 武汉市 武昌区 珞珈山 武汉大学 工学部 10号教学楼202室

Deliver Us Not

A Villanelle: I find these forms (perhaps due to the repetitions involved)tend to produce the ritualistic and the arcane, like some litanies from the church. Or perhaps I've just no imagination.

Beyond the Borderlands of Scotia

A tribute to the resilience of the fighting Scots-Irish.

The end of the Clergy

The vicar had been born in the West Indies, but his mother died six months before the family emigrated to England. The vicar was only a nickname but it had stayed with him throughout his life.

Who Am I

Crowded, I am alone. Alone, I seek solitude from my thoughts Will the void never fill, The thoughts never stop Who, but me, knows What goes on behind the façade

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