PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart They ordered from the screen’s menu, on the red phone. A bell dinged when it arrived. A panel whooshed open to reveal a banquet of sorts for them. They wolfed calories as if famished. Eating and sex were the only activities available, so they engaged in both with focus. Their…
dVerse — Poetics — Losing My Religion
lose the stones in your pockets lose the guilt that you choose lose the grit in your sprockets lose the rotgut in your booze lose the shadow of your fear lose the whine in your bellow lose the cotton in your ears lose the judgment on your fellows lose the hunger of your want lose…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #125 – April 5, 2022
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! There is a lot of good viewing in this week’s mix and one dud. American Rust (2021) showtime series, 9 episodes, but I borrowed from the library Starring: Jeff Daniels, Maura Tierney, David Alvarez, Bill Camp, Julia Mayorga, Alex Neustaedter, Mark Pellegrino, Robert Yang Directors: John Dahl…
The Beatles- why are we talking about them still 50 (+) years on?
The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, Feb 9 64 The Beatles- why are we talking about them still 50 (+) years on? So, let’s talk about why they remain popular, why they are still relevant, is their ongoing popularity justified? As a child who was born at the end of the 1950s, I was…
Cover Reveal for ‘Wounds I Healed’ — Experiments in Fiction
Calling all poets! Calling all poets! Please take a look at the beautiful artwork on the cover of a book currently in the making. Submissions are still being taken for it. Today, I am excited to reveal the cover of the forthcoming anthology from Gabriela Marie Milton and EIF, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of…
dVerse — Quadrille 149 — cloudfish speaks
It matters not the season, awake or asleep, please know me and understand, from grain of sand shifting with water, to morning’s crystals on a blade of grass, to your hands along warm scented skin, my swimming infinity; tender breadcrumbs offered as holy gifts. [44 words] I wanted to use one of my collages to…
TSM 205 — Haunted Diner
“The Whitehouse Diner” Photo by Aaron Segreaves Haunted Diner I can still hear them, their laughter, the plates and glasses clinking. I can still hear them, when youth’s engine blushed our cheeks. Spied then I, two entwined through the glass, heart sinking. Flames grew tall; I torched them all without thinking. I can still hear…
Tao-Talk 