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?

The Terebinth Story Archive      "Raging Squirrel"? Wasn't that a Robert DeNiro movie?

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      I could use a couple secret plans about now. But instead, I guess we'll all just reconvene on Monday for the next page!

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      How many guesses does she get?

The Daily Grind Table of Contents      It's just as well: I think I used up all my "Gaah!"s last time...

The Terebinth Story Archive      I'm sure this whole thing will turn into a crime drama eventually...