Hour Six, with the Prompt: “The Earth is actually flat, describe what you see…” *No religious or scientific offense is meant. This is fictional fun. The vast expanse, Echoes with the chance, of new advance. Promises of rebirth, Usher in fresh mirth, Across this new…

The edge of the earth lives in all of us. As we age we dangle our feet into the universe wiggling our toes into nothingness. Curtains of darkness hold us restrain us, teach us to evolve deeper and deeper into the everything that exists everywhere….

Fixing my attitude Though it’s a wicked life Cleaning in sweet sad solitude My messes that brought strife Why watch the rain under the shade When I can dance in it? It soon slows to a drizzle Pit-a-pat pit-a-pat It’s the sound of a life…

The Wolves run wild as the blue moon rises It moves slowly across the sky big and bright and full of light the moon not alone with the constellations and planets. all going around making no sound but always shining bright above.  

And I wonder at those whispered confidences Now that the chord which binds us is torn forever Will the confidences…the many secrets be torn, forever, too?

To the police he tolda rambling story of havingbeen out drinking with awoman andhow, in puttingon her hat, she accidentally jabbed himwith the pin.At the post mortem examinationat the hospital yesterday afternoon it was found thatthe broken point of thehat pin wasimbedded four and three-quarters…

The first rule of Detection Club: play fair Rather, the zeroth rule because rule one Is introduce the criminal early on And keep their thoughts off-air The next three rules restrain the gothic trend No ghosts, no made-up drugs, no high-tech tools No more than…

The Indian takeout intended for lunch is missing from the fridge. The son, reclining satiated on the sofa with fingers stained red, says he didn’t eat it. He owes his satisfaction to Doritos. Tell him that you know that it was him even if you’re…

If Einstein is right, then the Earth rises up to catch us because we live in a curved spacetime.   And I also know that it is no small matter that legs are my lineage

To you who lived before me in this smallish dwelling place, I hope you filled it up with love, with happiness and grace.   I hope your days were happy days, and all your ways were loving ways. I hope that good health paced these…