image link My name is Baron, yes, Baron, and I’ve been robbing banks all of my life. Bank robbing and prison go together like tea and honey, like frogs and ponds; you’ll seldom find one without the other. There’s always going to be somebody saying, “Put the money in the bag.” There’s always going to…
dVerse — Lai Nouveau — JUNE
Portrait of Félicité-Louise-Julie-Constance de Durfort, Maréchale de Beurnonville (1782-1808) by by French painter Merry-Joseph Blondel Frank is the host of dVerse today. Frank has given us some more pointers on the lai nouveau form. Here is my first lai nouveau. Challenging may be an understatement on what it was like to write it! JUNE June,…
Finish The Story — The Mystery of the Stone Circle: Part Three
UPDATE 5/11/19: I didn’t get a response from Michele Jones to write a chapter and don’t want what is shaping up to be a good story to languish and possibly die on the vine, so I’m choosing another, fabulous writer and hope he agrees to help finish the story: Padre at Padre’s Ramblings. Padre? …
Tale Weaver # 222 – The Opportunities of Old Age – May 9th
Myrna had been waking up at sunrise her whole life, or at least since she started school at age 5. That was 75 years ago. Even now she could recall her mother calling her downstairs for Oatmeal, orange juice, and toast for breakfast. Myrna was expected to either hang out laundry or fold laundry before…
Coloring Club Plus — 5/9/19
I was trying to think of a good song for this coloring and finally settled on the woodsy sound of Jethro Tull’s, “The Witches Promise,” a single, released in January 1970. The single was the first recording to feature keyboardist John Evan, who would be a key member of Jethro Tull throughout the 1970s. He…
50 Word Thursday #19 — Best of Friends
`What do you call yourself?’ the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had! – Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Margerie was spending the summer with her Uncle Nigel at his home in the woodland foothills. Uncle Nigel, a lifelong bachelor, had a live-in housekeeper, Mrs. Monroe, who would…
Climbing (mature audiences warning)
image link At thirty-five years old, Andy became the youngest professor to chair the Semantics Department at Hoddopscott University. Andy was at the apex of his career, and no one would dispute he’d worked his butt off for it. He had left a string of scorched corpses, personal and professional, along the way, but in…
