What the nuggy!! Booming man Thundering jokes Endless tales of elk horns and hidden islands. Her quiet husband, His IPA, “gimme another bitch beer.” Too sweet for me, but funny. Three admirable marriages of adorable souls make six cherished new friends. Love is everywhere Like…

Distance Learning Distance Learning is such a treat Better than some old worksheet Just log onto our Zoom account – Don’t move your camera all about- Now sit and look here at the screen I’ll show you how to grow a bean – I know…

Our bus zooms past treeline highways as we travel to the annual camp-meeting I am always looking forward to the camp-meeting It is in the cool, dry breeze and the happy faces It is in the strange people who peopled the places There is no…

Father was livid, his anger radiating heat where he stood, Hunger fueled his rage further, Making him snap his teeth, bellowing he would no longer be just an observer.   She’d stolen now thrice, This wily intruder in our cozy cottage, A brat, an insolent…

Beth A. Fleisher Hour 8   Prompt 8: Translate one of the emoji poems and write a poem by translating one of them back into verse. You can deviate from translating at any point, if the poem goes a different direction. Or you can write…

At the last family zoom meeting, I asked my 8 year old great niece, “Why are you wearing a mask?” She flitted about the family furniture, jumping over her 11 year old brother, prone, propped chin in his palms, in deep lethargy, staring at the…

Summer 1883 I can’t write good. Emma writes for me. Some days I am low down sad. A dog chewing his rope to catch a rabbit at field. Dad is dead 10 summers, feels a hundred moons. Mom is dead but a few. I want…

A Mysterious Party Ann WJ White The country cottage, surrounded by evening light, is host to the many fireflies, nightbirds and shadowed creatures. The building wears a mask of civility under the languid heat of summer night. Strange voices project from the treeline. Stars hold…

O my dear how I miss thee. I miss my companion to tell my inner most feelings to. I miss my partner in crime to tackle life’s challenges with. I miss the love that we felt and the affection we shared. O my dear how…

PITY   The heat of midday faded as the brilliant summer sun settled below the tree line.   Strange seemed the firefly who earlier zoomed about the cottage now looking lethargic and spent.   Had he succumbed from the heat of the day or did…