• Does God Know

    Things will never be the same Pulled apart and misshapen This is how Evil wanted it Destroyed but controlled It feels like a certain death Unaccompanied and alone Could God know where I am? The tides of ocean water Pulling back, spitting forth No souls to be saved Not a body dragged out Those waves…

  • Totem, Part VII

    “No, I am not lying,” Grandser said, feeling a bit hurt by the accusation, as he countered, “Can you see the wind?” “Yes.” I am not talking about seeing the clouds move by, that is jus’ the affect the wind has on the cloud.” “Can you see the wind?” “Yes.” “How?” “Dust devils, leaves moving…”…

  • Totem, Part VI

    It took them another month to get beyond what had been Fallon and the naval air station that had been so vibrant years before. Here the land also reclaimed what man had so carefully cultivated. Farm land, long fallow, no longer held food fit for a man to pick off the vine and eat. Not…

  • The real trick to intelligence is knowing when to play stupid.

  • Objects

    The Objects sat in the quiet space of the gods and the plains of baser thought. “Let’s be quick, before we are medicated,” whispered Reason. Loneliness and Sadness swept through and were gone, making their energies known. “There is nothing quick about any of this,” Elder Object said. Then Middle Object protested, “Why must we…

  • Totem, Part V

    Food was in short supply once he slipped beyond the fence. And while it didn’t take long for him to realize he wasn’t being chased and that no one would ever be chasing him again, he quickly became aware that he might starve to death if he didn’t reacquaint himself with wild-game hunting. Strangely, he…

  • Totem, Part IV

    Finally, he began: “It was the year 2012, a year of unrest that it began. I was many years younger than I am today and by 2015, the upheaval was so bad that martial law was enacted. When that didn’t work, they arrested people and moved them into camps for their protection.” “What is a…

  • RonaSpace: the distance between people that prevents cooties.

  • Dove Chocolate tastes better than Dove Soap.

  • Old Man of the Lake

    Wrote the day after Washington State’s Mt. Saint Helen blew and thought at the time it might be the start of a song. So silly. Can hardly believe it’s been 40-years since… Spirit Lake May be gone Harry Truman May be gone But their Memories Live on And live on The she blew And his…