Monthly Archives: September 2019

It pushes and pulls, expands and contracts Can take things away or bring them right back! It can warm you with a soothing summer breeze Or freeze you with a cold one up your sleeve! It mesmerizes vision with gently … Continue reading →

  Since the beginning of time, stories have been told about people possessing the ability to interpret messages carried on the wind. Today meteorologists might appear to fall into that category, but their skills are limited to reading wind direction … Continue reading →

    GONE WITH THE WIND   The energy that drives the wind originates with the sun, which heats the Earth unevenly, creating warm spots and cool spots. But is this the true impetus of the winds? My personal preference: … Continue reading →

Today we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first NOT-A election. Back in 2020, it was a brand new, radical idea. People liked the concept but couldn’t figure out how it could work in actual practice. However, they were tired … Continue reading →

Love is not blind. Love sees clearly. Love sees into the shadows. Love knows and loves anyway.   Love speaks to the best in us. Love insists that we listen. Love persists until we hear. Love lingers like an echo. … Continue reading →

I didn’t have time to write a story based on this weeks prompt so here’s what I wrote for the FW contest.   My name is Ashton Throckmorton, IV. All my chums at the Yale Club call me Ash. I … Continue reading →

Thor has led a busy and productive life. As he approached the ripe old age of 35 he gave some thought as to how he would like to get the most out of his Golden Years. Primitive man, you may … Continue reading →

Twitterpatted, I seemed to be Deaf, dumb and blind, it seems to me! In her presence, my heart beat faster I muttered, I mumbled, a real disaster. Abject beauty beyond compare, Oh, to smell that bountiful hair! Alabaster skin with … Continue reading →

CHEESE-IT!   Citing the rising cost of major metropolitan sponsorship, officials announced Monday that, effective January 1, 2020, the city once known as Philadelphia, will now be called Velveeta, Pennsylvania. The cream cheese company opted to discontinue its long-held naming … Continue reading →

A REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT   One of the greatest scientific giants, Russell Donner Pugh, devised an incredibly revolutionary concept. But first a little background information on Dr. Pugh. Russell’s ancestors, save one, died at the Donner Pass, frozen to death. Only … Continue reading →

  “What are you giving me for my birthday, Ralph?” Agnes quizzed. “You might as well tell me now so I can decide if it’s something I want. I always figure out what it is a week before you give … Continue reading →

Thanks to the Thor Empire mankind was no longer living in eternal fear of starvation. Thor and More was serving up barbecued deer to the hungry masses. People now were freed from endless hunting and foraging. With time on their … Continue reading →

From a distance, it looked like a blazing fire with orange and gold glowing hues.  Closer in view, it was a molded gleaming gilded menagerie of symbols of a life’s work. Thousands aged 20’s to 70’s gathered to palatable, near … Continue reading →

It hit me like a mac truck, knocked me out, and put me through one of the worst 24-hour periods of my life. It was a hurricane, rather several of them.  This was not the kind that is tracked by … Continue reading →

An emerald flag waves gently in the warm dense breeze. The amber sun shines brightly over the soothing ambre of cobalt, cornflower and sage blues and greens, creating thousands of sparkling diamonds dancing on its horizon. The mesmerizing calm of … Continue reading →

RED FLAG WARNING   Jameson Portnoy, an old West Virginia red neck, and his buddy Jocelyn ‘Little John’ Staudenmaier lived in a remote cabin that they built together deep in the woods of Northern California. Both were Vietnam vets, severely … Continue reading →

The clock kept ticking…Sally was well aware of the  the click, click, clicking sound that never seemed to stop.  But she wanted time to stop….to stop or to reverse to better days. Sally remembered when she said good bye to … Continue reading →

Solano was in his 4th year and he was more than ready.  Bred in the Spanish line of fighting bulls, Solano was muscular, though not as large as a “meat” bull, only 496kg, he was beautifully proportioned with wide horns … Continue reading →

Last night I dreamed of demons. In the dream I received a large box from an anonymous sender. Inside was a note saying that the contents were a gift for me. With puzzled anticipation, I peeled back the packing material … Continue reading →

  So many red flags, yet Peter chose to ignore them all—a yellow symbol glowing brightly on the dashboard, the weather forecaster imploring people to prepare for an imminent storm, and a “No Trespassing” sign bearing skull and crossbones symbols. … Continue reading →

In the early days, education was limited. Primitive man had learned a few rules such as never pat a mammoth baby and stay out of a thunderstorm. Some still chose to ignore these teachings. Life span was short back then. … Continue reading →

I learned a lot over the past two years while I was judging a writing contest. I learned that it’s harder to judge something that is obviously badly written than it is to judge something that I thought was good. … Continue reading →

The shaggy haired shaman, dressed in a palm frond skirt and little else, sat still on one of the large rocks in the edge of the surf on the land that would, one day, become Florida.  He sat cross legged, … Continue reading →

  TOMMY “HURRICANE” JACKSON   A hurricane is a tropical cyclone; a rotating system of clouds; one of nature’s most powerful storms with strong winds, storm surge, heavy rains, flooding, tornados and rip currents. “Hurricane” Jackson fits none of the … Continue reading →

Two retired teachers sat on opposite sides of the state from each other and wondered what had happened to a former student who shared a name with a hurricane. The news on the T.V. brought back many memories of a … Continue reading →

Fueled by the rapid expansion of the “Thor and More” barbecue franchise, the Thor financial empire grew exponentially. Capitalism worked pretty well. Thor also continued to experiment with flight, partly to increase his growing wealth and partly just for the … Continue reading →