Dancing beneath a blood moon.
2024 Swaying in spirit. Sound reverberated from all around. The chorus from a battered wine car. Plastic wrap for windows let the song come clear through the speakers. Two young women sang and rocked in their seats. It had been…
A Hare’s Tale
circa 2005 A Hare’s Tale I know of the men but I know nothing of the hare’s tale so I am forced to deduce it from the men involved and the circumstances of the situation I know of from personal…
A study of e.
I have some things I need to work on so it may be a minute before I get this finished to a finish so this will remain as it is for a spell. One, two, three, four… These are the…
Jazz concert cancelled.
Someone had written the message in black marker on copy paper and put on all the doors to enter the main library. “It’s stupid they cancelled it.” An elderly woman in red laying down to the side of the entryway…
Until the cleansing rains come.
The thing with hell is that it is the punishment we pass to our children. If we live in a way that leads to real peace, then our sons and daughters will have better lives and that is the divine…
Thoughts and shares
There are zero reasons that someone should be beaten to death by officers of the peace. This is a normal created by those who rely on the threat of violence for control and is acceptable under law written by those…
Long as Winchester
Marcus Winchester, the first mayor of Memphis, is buried under a municipal parking garage. His first wife, Marie, is likely there, as well. James Winchester, John Overton, and Andrew Jackson bought a chunk of land in the Chickasaw grounds north…
Memorial Day
It’s Memorial Day. Social media is filled with heart felt words and images to those who died, mostly on foreign soil, defending freedom. That is what they believe they died for. The only possible way for that to be true…
Walking faster doesn’t make walking farther.
The idea came about to do a series of the stories on the parks because there are a great number of lovely ones around and I figured it a good thing to go exploring and learning a bit so as…
Practicing from masters.
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a standard for a style of writing that one need not be and do to be great but it is an excellent one to study for elevating one’s adaptability with language. I can not remember…
Missed Messages
February 2020 You came into the kitchen to make some tea and I wanted to do nothing more than hold you close but you were sick (I saw the paperwork was on the passenger seat as I rolled your window…
Today won’t come tomorrow.
2007 “I hate you,” she said with a steel-piercing gaze. He sat silently. “Everything that is you, I don’t like and I am stuck with you, lying to all who ask about how great you are and wishing I could…
Shadowboxing Prometheus
“You gotta find someone crazy enough to let you do it.”That was the final rule Charles gave.The first was to make sure your hand was completely dry.Mr. Charles Logan was explaining how to slap the molten iron pouring from the…
Maxim and family.
Maxim Kamara contacted me through FB some months ago. June of 2020 had a lot going on and I was all manners of energy going on and a young man from Sierra Leone came out of the digital blue. It…
A story about a man named Mays.
Social media has provided me with the chance to meet with some of the coolest people. They are everywhere when you are right like I or you know how to look. If neither of those is you, then you may…
The sound of trees.
She was waving her arms like she wanted to speak to me. I rolled down my window. “You hear that! The trees, they are speaking.”I could see from my vantage the dancing of and swaying of them and know well…
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Sights and sounds.
Makings
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