I’m trying to write……again
I’ve been absent from WordPress for three years, but I’m trying to write again. Oh well, let’s see how it goes.
God of Peace
My granddaughter, Brianna, grade 12, and I converse daily on her English assignments. She’s writing a novella on pirates and an evil spirit. She has a poetry assignment and introduced me to Villanelle. I was intrigued and tried my third attempt at poetry in three years. Earlier that day I had occasion to have words…
The Pig and Weasel
Everything became a blur as I was grabbed by the collar and thrown against the wall to a laughing snort which I recognized all too well. Piggy Reagan was on the warpath again and I was his chosen victim; Piggy was his nickname not for his appetite or girth but for his snorting laughter. “You…
The Death of God
The death of God was announced briefly, to a large group of school children, on March 15, 2100, and a tombstone was placed in Bill Gates square as a monument to the death of superstition and the rise of science. Penelope Gates the supreme world leader presided over the opening ceremony watched by a few…
Virus
Socrates observed that the unexamined life is not worth living, and so here I sit late at night examining my life, after consuming a large quantity of vodka, and concluding that it is a complete mess. There was so much excitement in those early days as I graduated from university and threw myself into the…
Time
They say that time has meaning only to a particular observer and I tend to agree with that observation. In the sixties, I took a girl on a first date to the West End of London to see the stage musical ‘Desert Song’ (music by Romberg, lyrics by Hammerstein). In discussions after the musical, I…
Creatures of the Night
The old man tumbled out of bed, the screams of his grandson ringing in his ears, as he fumbled to light the candle and stagger down the corridor to his grandson’s room. Hurrying through the open door, he enfolded his whimpering grandson in his arms. whispering words of comfort, soothing his brow, making the evils…
Coffee Time Questions
I find myself at loose ends today, the weather is absolutely miserable, so I thought I might try, these coffee-time questions that I have seen posted on blogs I follow. My wife and I will be traveling doing the family rounds and Christmas open houses so I will not be blogging till after the new…
Balance
The best and the worst It’s time… for the bubble to burst In the early nineties, I worked in accounting with a very tech-savvy guy. Even though it wasn’t his responsibility, the company had a separate department to troubleshoot software problems, and he gladly assisted any who asked for his help. The LAN department manager…
The Secret
The Fauci family had kept their promise for eighteen hundred years and soon they would be relieved of their burden and the secret hidden beneath the catacombs for nearly two millennia would be revealed to the world. Antonio Fauci, a prominent Roman physician, had been approached eighteen hundred years ago by a man who entrusted…
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