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Cain and Abel - what really happened

A small offering to the Poetry Anthology for 2026

When the words become destructive...

We make myriad choices every day, in cooking, editing, life and much more. Here are three poems to choose from, or you can embrace all three.

My free-verse entry for the 2026 poetry anthology. Lately it seems that what seems like being a choice, really isn’t. Are we really free to decide any aspects of our own lives?

Hunter and Dale are all set for the next chapter of their lives; parenthood. Having just moved to Cedrich Falls, a small town in the Midwest, they become fast friends with their neighbor. After taking in two kids in need, they soon find themselves up against the towns self proclaimed authority on what is morally right.

In a glass-and-marble New York life, Nora Beaumont, an immaculate fixer who keeps other people's chaos on schedule, looks up one day and realizes her own marriage to Daniel, a beautiful cipher built of calm and covenants, has been filed under "maintenance." On the eve of her birthday, a single, reckless wish knocks something loose, and a stranger enters their lives to rearrange the furniture of their desire.

What begins as a staged surprise becomes a slow-burning reckoning. As Nora watches the man she loves become someone she's never met, she must decide whether reinvention is an act of love, or a controlled demolition.

Rick likes order, rules and the fact that he is always right. Liam is an endless chaos, making the world look more complicated with his mathematical formulas and magical scientific crap. Putting these two together in the same room causes nothing more than misery, disorder, and fun.

Malicious Glee is a collection of short stories following Rick and Liam—partners who love each other fiercely, argue publicly, flirt dangerously, and take an almost academic pleasure in pushing each other's boundaries.

PS: You just need to read the prologue to know them.

At a high-stakes Easter swim meet, sunshiney GWU swimmer Austin gradually breaks through the icy rivalry of Georgetown star Petr, turning competition into a steamy romance.

Ark II is now on the new world and life begins for them.