Hey, Your Nose is on Fire!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Kids? Don't try this at home.

The Terebinth Story Archive      Miss Annekke? Wait a minute, Lamont: I thought we were still talking about whether Esther should eat you or not.      Still, I can't resist an adversarial villanelle...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Could it be that cooler heads are about to prevail? I mean, we are at the end of Act I or our current three-act melodrama.

     There's another poem of mine over on the Silver Blade website. It's a pantoum in iambic tetrameter if you wanna get all fancy about it, and it's also a story about cutting your losses when it's time to get out. " One Last Pie in the Face " is the title, and it's the 8th poem I've had over there since 2017 including " Ode to the Artistic Temperament ," an iambic pentameter ode in terza rima that tied for 3rd place in the Long Form category of the 2020 Rhysling Awards.      I've got a short story that'll be available for purchase in a couple weeks, too, but more about that when it happens.                                         Mike

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Relationships are so fraught. I mean, I guess: I've never actually been in one...

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Why's Howlett gotta keep bringing things like "love" and "trust" into what oughtta be a simple heist?