
Christmastime and Santa Claus
CHRISTMASTIME AND SANTA CLAUS It is joyous to watch children reach for Christmas toys, dolls for little …
CHRISTMASTIME AND SANTA CLAUS It is joyous to watch children reach for Christmas toys, dolls for little …
Last Autumn Together Remember French fries and cokes? Ketchup plopping out of the bottle, a sticky mess …
Two old cats chase each other through the house awakened by spring’s arrival. I throw open shuttered …
I remember our handsome family visiting in the guest parlor of our ancestral Queen Anne home, festively decorated …
a fiery red moon in a glacial autumn sky shines effectual …
“Looking at those tombstones gives me the shakes,” Bobby Dunn said to his live-in companion, Marcus Clinton. …
Pixies dance beneath golden ring of moon. Meteoroids sail through space gleaming in autumn starlight. Misty …
Her cheeks are Macintosh apples. She has corn silk hair, eyes green as leaves. A bright …
A shrouded figure slipped along the catwalk of the vast heating chamber in the Nelson-Clarke Museum. With gloved, …
I am in step with the child chasing clouds raindrops wind sun a fragile tinted rainbow
“Study this photo, class, and tell me what you see,” instructed Lewis Golden, a math teacher at …
There it was, the cow shaped mailbox Claude knew so well, it’s neat black letters spelling …
Flannel-jacketed campers huddle against rough winds buffeting the lake’s edge filling tin pails with last of …
Suddenly the hammering in the breezeway had stopped. “Odd,” I thought. Then I heard a high-pitched …
Marley, his long white hair unkempt, dressed in loose-fitting workpants and a foul-smelling flannel shirt, sat in the …
The full moon is in attendance to a regalia. One star shines queenly among the luminous …
The rustle of ivy against a cool brick wall. Wisteria and clematis spider out of hanging baskets …
Maya Bull raised opera glasses to her wide green eyes. She adjusted the lenses until they focused …
Julie raised an impish face with ‘wise owl’ eyes to newlyweds, Dianne and Hugh Levitt. She wished she …
Crested bird too big for his britches streaks through woodland a brilliant blue
532 Words AT THE DROP OF A SHOE Congressman Mel Hooper, his family and political staff, attended the …
OLD BOTTLES Whispery legends of days gone by. Sunlight refines a soft …
Clara and Dory Marchand sat at their linen-covered table with a fresh yellow rose in a Majolica vase …
Passing a newly painted trellis, wild roses clinging to each square, an old-world fragrance perfumes the …