Category: Writing

Fiction that rises up to my pen

Poems the few that occur to me

Books that I’ve been reading

Writing Craft

October 1, 2000

It started innocently enough. Not pleasantly, but innocently. I was engaged to be wedded on the first day of the new millennium.

September 15, 2000

Cloud chamber with tracks from ionized particles

Will Philip be able to solve the riddle of his escape equation?

September 8, 2000

“I crave electromagnetic waves of 450 nanometers.”

September 1, 2000

Antrim Mountains in North Ireland have good grazing slopes

“Fleet a’ mind is better than fleet a’ foot,” Colleen taunted him.

August 15, 2000

There’s no one left to gather more kernels for King Darius

August 8, 2000

Chalcy Owl peers with a cold calcuation directly

A distant promise is an empty gift today.

August 1, 2000

The battery, the wires—the pulse of life was to be provided by a non-living object.

July 15, 2000

Who is the man Sandy is talking to?
Oh, never mind. To see Michel Fokine dance to the music of Stravinsky would be heaven indeed.

July 8, 2000

Early, somber van Gogh. Farmer at a table

My earliest memories are of family dinners. A distinct one occurred after my first day at St. Jerome Primary School. Father sat at the head of the table, between the dining room windows. Without a glance I knew his face would be stern. Mom put potatoes on my plate and said, “Larry, what did you…