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Terebinth, Page 1,837: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Apparently, I was wanting to draw a fussy little interior today.

Of a Feather, Pg 96

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents       That's telling 'em, Kain!      One more week of the story here, folks!

Of a Feather, Pg 95

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      I've been thinking I should go back and reread the beginning of this whole thing to see if the ending here actually makes any sense, but, no! We're moving on!

Of a Feather, Pg 94

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Well, maybe they'll at least get ice cream what with the stand right there and all...      And in case anyone's interested in my new poetry collection, Two Strikes and I'm Out , it's now available from the fine folks at Island of Wak Wak Press. To be technical, I suppose, it's more a 6,700-word short story told over the course of 63 poems than an actual collection, but nonetheless, there it is. I think we've gotten all the typos out of it at this point, too!

Terebinth, Page 1,836: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      A seven-line stanza with this sort of a rhyme scheme is known as a canopus after a poem of that name by Clement Wood. Just in case anyone was wondering...      And in case anyone's interested in my new poetry collection, Two Strikes and I'm Out , it's now available from the fine folks at Island of Wak Wak Press. To be technical, I suppose, it's more a 6,700-word short story told over the course of 63 poems than an actual collection, but nonetheless, there it is. I think we've gotten all the typos out of it at this point, too!

My New Poetry Book

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The end of June must mean:      My new poetry book's out!      Not that it's anything as simple as a collection of poems. I mean, what'd be the fun in that? Instead, it's a 6,700 word story told from beginning to middle to end over the course of 63 poems written in a variety of forms and meters. Because that's what we do for fun 'round these parts!      I never intended for it to be a story, actually. In fact, I wrote the "two strikes" separately as part of Zoetic Press's Write Like You're Alive program, a challenge to do something creative every day for a month. So in July of 2018, I wrote 31 poems under the title "Abecedarian," and four years later during August of 2022, I did 31 more poems called "The Lure of the Mechanical."      A little thought, though, showed me that the first person narrator in both groups was the same guy, haplessly flailing after similar things in di...