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National Poetry Month Day 2: Hurdy-Gurdy Girls

Day 2, and today’s prompt was hurdy-gurdy. Hurdy-Gurdy Girls A wailing hurdy-gurdy,a little flash of petticoatand a tall gin fizzThe golden scent of money in the airA swing around the dance flooras the music plays its razzle dazzleTo end at the barand another drink

National Poetry Month Day 1: Illiterate Canapés

Back once more with a month of poetry (and yes I know I missed Drabble Wednesday again. What can I say, the days are melding together lately). Here’s today’s poem, Illiterate Canapés, to start us off. Illiterate Canapés Glitter diamonds set the moodAs servers...

Drabble Wednesday: A Dickens of a Time

Sorry for the lack of posts these last two weeks but some unexpected things happened, good and bad, and I got behind. But here is the next installment of The Flying Monkey Genetic Laboratory Saga, and more adventures with the Time Sheep. In the...

Drabble Wednesday: A Touch of Dark Magic

Today’s Drabble Wednesday is a slight interlude, as I ruminate on where the time sheep storyline is headed. So enjoy three short tales of dark fantasy and magic… The Rose and Sword To know your fate, take up the sword. Cut the rose and...

Drabble Wednesday: Time Spurts

Welcome back to Drabble Wednesday and three more adventures with Tracy, Dr. Stein and Debbie the Time Sheep. Run, Tracy, Run “That can’t be real.” Dr. Stein’s mouth dropped open as he saw the group of mounted warriors thundering down a road in a...

Drabble Wednesday: The Sheep Thickens

We are back again for Drabble Wednesday and more adventures with Tracy, Dr. Stein, and Debbie the Time Sheep. Interruption Tracy smirked at Dr. Stein and moved to retrieve a syringe of sedative. As her hand reached out, radiant luminosity filled the room, temporarily...

#Audiblegate: Why Audible May Not Be The Best Place To Download Audiobooks

So, I’ve talked about #Audiblegate before (you can find the previous posts here and here) and its deceptive “exchange policy” that are actually returns in disguise, but here’s a quick recap. Audible is using its platform as an lending library instead of a selling...

Drabble Wednesday: Dinosaurs And Sheep

Today I am back with Drabble Wednesday with a new chapter of the Flying Monkey Genetic Laboratories Saga. Enjoy. Primeval Instinct? To: Human Resources (Flying Monkey Genetic Laboratories) From: Cloning Lab 1 We have concerns about the Tracy clone. Two and a half weeks...

Drabble Wednesday: Teddy Bears, The Law, and American Pie

More fun with the scientists at the Flying Monkey Genetic Laboratories. A slightly longer entry in the saga… Presentation With a click, the video begins…The smiling face of a scientist in a laboratory appears. He walks across the room and begins talking to the...

Drabble Wednesday: More Mad Science

Another round of the The Flying Monkey Genetic Laboratory Saga. Enjoy. Mad Science and Tracy- Part 2 Here I was, anxiously watching an armadillo-dinosaur, hybrid clone suck up her fifth pink lemonade through a yellow straw. Tracy seemed calm, especially considering her recent shoplifting...