Image by Reimund Bertrams from Pixabay It all started the night Jax and I broke up. Lying in bed and crying until there were no more tears left, I decided to push past my usual fear of the dark and drive out to the lake. The water was barely rippling under a midnight blue sky…
Category: The Haunted Wordsmith
The Curse of the Gray Slime
Image by stokpic from Pixabay When you’re a vampire, there is plenty of time to reflect. Too much time. After awhile all thoughts have been thought. Eventually it hits you, that endlessly looping bundle of electrically charged synaptic pathways are just slime. It’s the gray slime that’s the real vampire, not me, drawing away from…
Bewitched
Image by Larisa Koshkina from Pixabay “You orbit me like the planets orbit the sun. Always there, always circling. I feel suffocated!,” Ginger said as she put the finishing touches on her alluring witch outfit. Despite what she said, a smile played about her lips, as Ginger would have it no other way. She loved…
Rocky Raccoon: The Next Chapter
Image by pasja1000 from Pixabay “Somewhere in the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota, there lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon.”* Rocky lived on a small island in the middle of a perfect blue lake fed by pristine springs from deep under the mountains. Rocky had lived there, willingly isolated, after his torrid love affair…
Science Village
Image by suju from Pixabay Science Village is a residential experimental community where one can rent lodging, lab space, and equipment to study whatever needs a lab and equipment. It can be anything from molecules to nitroglycerine, an explosive. There are only two rules: sign liability waiver and no animal (including human) research subjects allowed….
Mountain Trials
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay The following tale is true, I swear it upon my holy inheritance to pass through the pearly gates. In the year 1706, when us who traveled the Atlantic and found this new paradise, I and a party of 19 decided to cross the mountains now known as the Appalachians with…
Santa Agua
Image by enriquelopezgarre from Pixabay When I attended college in Spain, I was blessed enough to stay in a “dorm” room at the Palacio del Santa Agua. The palace was built as a public monument to life-giving water when an 80-year drought had afflicted the area. During the drought, the mango fields withered and even…
Tao Talk 