Can’t go fishing because of ‘self-isolation,’ but can go to grocery store and buy Tilapia raised in China.

Where most husbands created a ‘man-cave,’ Jasper Clarke had a study. It’s here that he had been spending longer than normal hours, reading, writing, and in essence, studying everything he could about COVID-19. He thought it a wise use of his ‘self-isolation’ time. A self-directed courses in virology wasn’t his normal interest, as usually he’d…

Less than a month into socialism and Bernie bails out.

Shaving kit, check. Three pair of underwear, check. Three tee-shirts, check. Three pair of socks, check. One pair of pants, check. All the bare essentials one needs for a two day trip home in a single bag. Check. Seven that morning, check-in counter, 90-minutes before boarding: “I’m afraid there will be a fifty-dollar charge for…

While out flying a kite this afternoon, a guy actually asked me, “So you’re flying a kite, huh?” “Nope,” I answered, “Fishing for birds.” He returned, “Catch anything yet?” I shit you not!

The time continuum does not really exist, never has; it is simply a science-fiction writer’s construct. I learned this, this morning as I ran into myself coming out of a grocery store. I looked at me with as much surprise as I did when I recognized that stupid look on my face, that one that…

The patrol of guardsmen, dressed in their desert camouflage, is easing through the higher sagebrush, each with their M-4 Carbine held at the ready. Their eyes squint against the blazing sun, searching for their human prey, this one, who is in violation. While they makes almost no sound, their shifting movement give their positions away.…

“Gotta cigarette by chance?” my new neighbor asks as he sit down on the sidewalk’s edge, a few feet from me. “Sorry, no I don’t,” I answer. “’Bout to have myself a nicotine fit if the wife doesn’t hurry up home soon.” I think about asking him if he has a beer, as a joke,…

They called her An Ice Queen. Claimed she had No heart beat, Refused to bleed. But I watched As she menstruate Through the snow For their sake. Her sudden death Came very slowly.

“Before you is a box and key,” the tribunal inquisitor said to the newest ten initiates, “You’re to keep both with you at all times. Guard your box with your life. Do not unlock it, open it or even look in it. Those are your instructions. The Great Society shall see you again in 40…