I will not be quiet Word count 829 Sergeant Sam York got the tip by phone in the morning. “You know the rash of disappearances that have happened lately? I think that I know the house where they are kept. Strange noises have been … Continue reading House
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Bigger than a bread box, older than the end of WWII.
Ubik
Health food Word Count 843 Excerpts from the Lake Oswego Weekly Express: From the Garden Column October 3, 2017 – Jersey Wilkins discovered a very strange plant in her yard last week. The plant, which vaguely resembles wheat stalks with corn kernels, has grown … Continue reading Ubik
Final Frontier
Attractive but unhappy Word count 624 Sally got home from her nature guide conference after being gone for a week. She was surprised to see an envelope with her name on it in Duke’s handwriting propped up on the phone. He used to send her … Continue reading Final Frontier
Birthday
Not the Association, but you can't tell Word Count 474 A few weeks ago I bought The Association album Birthday. Prices for used albums are $1.00 a piece, or three for $2.00 where I volunteer at Booktique, a charitable used bookstore three blocks from … Continue reading Birthday
Pass
Yes, like that Word Count 291 I really enjoyed the story “Rocket To Oblivion” by Isaac Heinlein Clarke in the online Space Time Stories. His depiction of relations between Neptunians and Earthers was the most sensitive and tasteful that I had ever read about contact … Continue reading Pass
I Won’t Take Manhattan
Toss up between this and a wheat field. Tough call. Word Count 1,434 Not that Manhattan, the Big Apple, Bright Lights Big City, this is the little apple, dim lights, little city in Kansas. I ended up there after my third year of a … Continue reading I Won’t Take Manhattan
Dump
Picture of a fictional president, resemblance to anyone living or dead ... Word Count 965 Year One Of The President’s Term: A compliant Republican party backed the President’s anti-immigrant stance. The countries whose citizens were denied entrance condemned the US and sought to censure … Continue reading Dump
Brave New Word
It looks like this Word count 356 After twenty three rejections of my masterpiece “House Of Rats”, I started looking for a more reasonable publisher. The publishers and editors that I had been dealing with were a bunch of snobbish Ivy League arts and … Continue reading Brave New Word
Dig
Mine, I mean his weapon of choice Word count 495 I’m a volunteer at Ryon State Park, named after an early settler Aristotle Ryon. I’m a two way guy in that I edit the Ryon Newsletter and do physical work in the park, … Continue reading Dig
Vigilant
Word Count 616 My job - fixing the ills of society At first it was thought to be an isolated case. A loud, self-important person said that his cell phone had overheated and mildly burned his ear while he was talking about his proctology … Continue reading Vigilant
Doug Hawley 