As We Age By Linda HelmichMarch 16, 2024 Hours and days were slow to passWhen I was just a young sweet lassBut now the months go swiftly byAnd even years do seem to flyTime it seems is quite like plastic,Firm at times, but then elasticWaiting makes it seem too longShortening when my timing’s wrong,Dear me, […]
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Scene Five By Don Marlin Sally had taken off to class when the phone rang at their house. Richard was off today as music usually was taught in the county on Monday, Wednesday and Friday leaving Tuesday and Thursday for preparing test questions, music theory lectures, and the occasional spot tests on French horn scales. […]
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Scene four By Don Marlin The cobalt blue glow over the 25-watt yellow light was still there. Mary grabbed my right arm, and I almost came unglued again from the bike wreck pain but wanted her to hold me at the same time. The slow approach to George II felt to me like M. Night […]
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Scene threeBy Don Marlin The temperature of the ice cold well water on my face didn’t offset the pain in my right side, but it did clear away the light sleep and shock in my facial features. Mary’s facial angst didn’t change. After we ran lockstep out of the room to catch our breath and […]
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Scene twoBy Don Marlin Richard and Sally had the ideal setting for raising a family and growing their careers outside of Somers, Connecticut. Sally taught English at a local middle school five minutes from the house with only eighteen kids in each of the four grades of classes. Richard was content with a commute of […]
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Scene OneBy Don Marlin My body ached along my right side and kept bleeding through the bandages. My right shin and knee had six-inch gashes that bore markings like a bear paw being slowly drawn down along my flesh. My right thigh was almost twice as big as my left, turning blue, and bore the […]
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The Time TravelerBy Tom Mercer Charles “Timely” Smith was a relatively inconspicuous man. In fact, Charles was very close to unnoticeable, and that quality served him well as a professional “temporal violation agent” for his employer, ChronoCorp. When dressed appropriately for his target year, Charles could slide up unnoticed right behind a chrono-transgressor (aka a […]
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Bon Voyage, MomBy Jeanne Souldern In the spring of 2001, I drove with my 9-year-old daughter, Abby, to Red Wing, Minnesota, my mom’s hometown nestled along the banks of the Mississippi River. My mom and her three sisters grew up in a Lutheran children’s home in Red Wing in the 1930s. Noting that this was […]
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Double Bubble TroubleBy Nancy Bo Flood I chewedAnd chewedThenBlew and blew.My bubble grew… And Grew … and … GREW until POP! Oh, No.It’s on my noseIt’s in my hairDouble Bubble everywhere. Piece by pieceI peel off pink. Ooops DROPPED D […]
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Feathers FlyingBy Larry Day Chaos in the hen houseFox is on the loose! Got in through the backdoor,Disguised as a goose.