Professor Charlton William Green has devoted his career to two major paths of research. One path focuses on time travel and one path focuses on reversing the aging process. Professor Green had his 106th birthday today. He’s running out of time. After his six children, twelve grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, and twenty-four great-great-grandchildren held a birthday…
Month: June 2020
dVerse — prosery 14 — The Inperturbable Street
We go in different directions down the imperturbable street. –Gwendolyn Brooks A pair of mourning doves wheels away, startled when the keychain lands near them. “Don’t be a child. You have custody of Merlot,” Gillian says. Harold had never hated himself as much as he did right now. Why had he ignored the red…
#FFFC 69 — Bimbo Baggins
Many remember the stories of Skittle Earth and the adventures of the hobbits. No matter how many volumes are written, some stories escape telling for one reason or another. I’m here today to tell one of them. Most of the hobbits mentioned in the books are male. Today’s story is about a female hobbit named…
#SLS — “Hard Sun,” by Indio and cover by Eddie Vedder
Jim Adams is the steadfast host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week we have size prompts using the following words Big/Large/Little/Small/Tall/Tiny and hopefully this will fit everyone. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. If it does not fit,…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #138 — Intrepid We Go Forth
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are players. They have their entries and exits” — Shakespeare. Who we are is learned behavior. Reinforced by repetition Institutions’ sour savor Us v. Them a favored flavor Cooked by gluttons’ craved ambition Who we are is learned behavior. Taints our sense like…
Novelty Song Friday #12 — “Doobie in my Pocket,” by Keller Williams
One of my friends whose daughter travels far and wide to see live music and sometimes drags her along told me I needed to go to youtube and find this song. She is the same friend who told me about Billy Strings so I did as she instructed. Nowadays, with reefer becoming legal in so…
Thursday Inspiration 59 — Serena
Her mother curled in an abalone-lined clam shell the day she gave birth to her. Five miles deep, far from any trawler’s net, human hook or harpoon, bubbles streamed from her mouth as her default night vision captured the fluorescent anemone waving welcome to her entry into the womb of the sea. Merfolk grow so…
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