image link The twelve city commissioners were each direct descendants of the original city leaders from a hundred years ago. The closed leadership system had grown stale at least fifty years ago, but the citizens had been demoralized for longer than that. The word sterile came to mind. The commissioners cared about two things and…
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#MM– Saturday Mix – Resist
They came to take Assange away. Ecuadorian embassy. A small grey man in evil’s grip. He cried out then, “You must resist” The overlords and keep speech free Darkness croaked it would have today Serve fifty weeks for skipping bail Dismissed charge from other country? Melting candles of freedom drip Manning, Snowden, who’s the…
Montana Blue and the Mountain Boys
Montague Michaels began life on the edge of Boston Bay. As soon as he could walk, he was helping his father catch crabs at the water’s edge to sell to the fine restaurants along the harbor. When his father bought a fishing boat, young Monty would help throw out the lobster traps, then haul them…
Saturday Mix – Mad About Metaphor, 17 August 2019 — Dexter & Denny: All’s Well that Ends Well
Dexter was the obsessive-compulsive type. His clothes were arranged by color in the closet, his t-shirts were all folded exactly the same, as were his underwear and socks were folded just-so. Dexter flossed his teeth in the same order every morning and brushed each tooth an exact number of times. He fed his dog exactly…
#MM Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip — tanka — Lilies in August
Lilies in August Caged underground to bright-petaled divas preening, their faces sunward. They call their many suitors, who crawl, run, and fly to them. Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Saturday Mix. Sarah says: For this week’s Lucky Dip, I have reached into my mystery bag and pulled out a Tanka. The topic is…
Hungry (mature audiences only)
image link WARNING: THIS MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR THOSE WITH PTSD Father Jones had been sent by the church to the far reaches of Alaska to convert the Alaskan population to Christianity. You see, Father Jones was a weak man. He’d been bounced from parish to parish for years, as his weakness of “infatuations” with…
#MM — Saturday Mix – Unique Personality, 27 July 2019 — Vert and Brid
image link Vert was a 1965 Imperial Sedan Green Hornet. He’d sat on the lot of Sal’s Sweet Deals for a good two years. Day after day, week after week, month after month, Vert experienced the tacit rejection of the stream of customers that spilled through Sal’s lot and chose others but not him. Vert…
Tao Talk 