Stories

Jake & Ben make some interesting discoveries.

The suitor who wishes to marry Princess Bluze must accompany her to the fairy ballroom. Many refuse...

Philíppe, who is in his late fifties, wakes from a frequent dream one rainy Saturday morning. As he moves from bed to breakfast memories from his past flood his consciousness. Unexpectedly, he receives a phone call from a nearly forgotten voice. There is an invitation to the upcoming football game followed by a discussion of where to do planning for the weekend. All the while a squall line is coming in from out in the ocean.

April is National Poetry Writing Month, and this is my collection for 2021. The goal is to write 30 poems (one per day) throughout the month. The majority of poems are responses to prompts supplied by Jan Hutchinson. Since I turn fifty this year, a lot of them will feature remembrances, musings, and thoughts about the next fifty. A retrospective of my life.

Liebe, a young girl living in the Florida Keys with her two fathers, is invited to watch sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs. When one appears to be in trouble because of plastic waste, their friend Jo comes to the rescue. A few weeks later, Liebe’s delighted as countless hatchlings race across the sand to the ocean.

In the tradition of Rudyard Kipling, a boy who is a thief becomes a spy.

A man seeking out the help of a cursebreaker. What he gets might be worth more than what he asked for...

How does a man deal with the death of his wife and picking up the pieces? Sometimes not well.

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"Some bad days are better than others"

This is the story of Cooper Reynolds, a young man who used to be a successful stockbroker. Let’s find out what happens to him.