Ghost Dancing with Dead Cousins

I was quite open to summoning your deceased cat even to calling in the Dead Files to seek the secrets harbored by our house I didn’t object to the large sage plant fumigating every room seeping into silent shadows herbal delight spirit fright! And wasn’t it I the fearless, fanatic searching out the perfect shaman … Continue reading →

Glamma Gigi

Imagine looking for your grandma and finding her floral caftan with matching pink furry slippers, the floral citrus smell of Channel #5 still hanging in the air meandering along the trail of brilliant zinnias all the way to the hot tub. Then imagine the evidence, a struggle, indentations in the St. Augustine signaling an awful … Continue reading →

Melanie and Me

I think I liked Melanie because her hair had a slight bit of curl which I might have envied although this was the era of slick, stick-straight, part-down-the-center, the-longer-the-better 1970s hair. Melanie showed up in the middle of Beowulf one day in English class. No, she wasn’t monster hunting, she brought me from the midst … Continue reading →

Vampires! Excerpt – Dancing with the Sandman

Dena Kay liked to take me to the movies when she didn’t have anyone else to ask along. I liked going, as of course, I would like to go just about anywhere. After all, it wasn’t a whole lotta fun, and also rather tricky, having to play dodgeball by oneself. Dena Kay just loved scary … Continue reading →

Dancing with the Sandman Excerpt: Coyotes

I loved to spend the night with Nanny and Granddad on the farm out in the middle of flat nowhere.  It wasn’t as bad as one may think; there was lots to do and lots to wonder about.  It was especially fun when Tandy and I got to spend the night together in order to … Continue reading →

Centers

It is never advisable to put the dinosaurs in the pen with the goats I try explaining this to Nora, her hazel eyes wide dark hair streaming shoes gleaming, equipped with flashing lights too her small form contained in a pink princess shirt   No! she says They go in there! I ponder T-Rex he … Continue reading →

Reluctant Alien

The little green man nursed his slight gash bleeding little green drops resulting from a deliberate bite from a discontent, hairy beast known as Bozo this interrupted his camera viewing his aircraft watching his human snatching these nutty earthlings both boring and hostile engrossed in their petty lives But he is injured now no way … Continue reading →

Rats

We have here rats the size of Nutria running and hiding in the walls of history Sometimes, I think I’ll see one asking out Mary Jane Evans or cruising in a Mustang spinning in Caspian blue black leather seats pony wheels At night, the rodents sneak out read Chaucer shake it up a bit We … Continue reading →

The Benefits of Melatonin

When the joyous years crash your pretty sleep and you can no longer count sheep Dust off the cap to the melatonin allow yourself to snooze without all the groanin’ Insomnia, you are one cursed bird a supplement perhaps does all that you’ve heard or ditch the Visine try some L-glycine Dear body clock I … Continue reading →

Thursday’s Greed Pt. 2

Part 2: Adele looked around the house. If there was gonna be a meetin’, then there had to be a cleanin’ first. “Look a there,” she said to herself, rubbing her hand across the divan. Miss Fuzz had been sneaking around and napping, and that cat knew well that the divan was off limits! That … Continue reading →