Sometimes I look up at the sky when I hear an airplane and I realize that it wasn’t all that long ago that there were no planes in the sky…
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It was hard then to know just where you fit in and why should it be any different now? God knows I didn’t know where I fit in forty years…
A Play In One Act The Players: Abe Lincoln, a President Mary Todd Lincoln, a First Lady Charles Nelson Reilly, a Thespian Scene: Heaven, The Lincoln Home specifically, on the…
When you were a kid did your neighborhood friends ever gather for a pickup game of football in an open field on an early autumn Saturday afternoon? And did you…
I used to write stuff. I used to paint pictures too. Some of it, occasionally, wasn’t half-bad. It takes head and heart and soul to do anything creative. The best…
Farewell Mr. Potato Head’s scrotum I regret never getting to know’d ‘im As for his testosterone, tater twin tots Here’s a bouquet of forget-me-nots I guess it’s a sign of…
I can’t yet say that music has carried me through the corona crisis but I know that it will. For one thing, it hasn’t really been all that long since…
“Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine…”I want my mother“Oh what a foretaste of glory divine…”my mother is in a box and soon she’ll be in the ground, I want my mother“Heir…
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PART 3 Three days later the town was now in complete uproar over the disappearance of yet another young daughter. Fingers were pointed in every direction but ever increasingly at…
PART 2 Elsie had received her first taste of murder from her father, the experience of which would later serve her well. It was on an Indian summer, October afternoon,…
PART 1 “Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine…”I want my mother“Oh what a foretaste of glory divine…”my mother is in a box and soon she’ll be in the ground, I want…
Bombast, drama, fantastical lyrical imagery, banshee vocals, killer riffs and pinball arcade synthesizers. What more could a thirteen-year old boy in the year 1978 ask for? “Okay Boomer, so some…
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