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Hire Lernin’ (teaser #2) – Whom does the law serve?

Whom does the law serve?
Society and justice?
Or is it lawyers?

As I hope is true of all of my fiction, my novel has many layers and subtexts that are intended to both entertain and expose readers to ideas and concepts that I hope will leave them thinking after they put down the book. Like my favorite contemporary novelist, Dean Koontz, there have always been threads of social commentary throughout my modest published fiction (and poetry). In this novel, beyond the obvious criticism leveled...

No Sweeter Perfume

No sweeter perfume,

That the warm, familiar scent,

Of the one you love.

40 % off coupon for my novel through January 15, 2022

To celebrate our brand new year (and in hopes that it may bring all of us a notable improvement over the last two years) I have created a 40% off coupon valid until January 15, 2022 but only at Smashwords. (The regular retail price is $4.95 and the price with the coupon will be $2.97). To take advantage of this sale, you can click on the following link and copy and paste the coupon code GL56P in the coupon box at checkout: Click here for the link.

About the novel (from the Smashwords book pag...

Mergs (or, Why Godot Can’t Come . . .) Teaser

Drunkard, homeless, god,

With billions of supplicants,

Preying for his help.

You can hear my reading of a preview of my short story by the same name at https://open.spotify.com/episode/0i6GfdaVIaE00rZR6rMWHK?si=hLLzjfmGQwKcaJppZtzHRA.

Eternal Quest

Why do we search for truth,
In all the wrong places?

Why do we trample true love,
Eyes fixed on the horizon?

Why do we build the crosses,
On which we are crucified?

Why do we sacrifice ourselves,
On altar to our ego?

Why do we discard the pure,
In Quixotic quests for the perfect?

Why do we always find answers,
Only when it is too late?

This free verse piece is inspired by one of my earliest and still my favorite short story, Eternal Quest. I wrote the original version, largely unchan...

End of Days – poem and link to preview reading

Scientists’ hubris,
Terrorists’ evil cunning,
End our universe.

Black holes and Big Bangs,
New theory will reveal,
their close interplay.

Dark vision of truth,
The end of the world revealed,
Already begun.

You can hear me read about half of my short story by the same name in my podcast at https://open.spotify.com/episode/2UaNRr1aRdran3DEcidYu9?si=S1Gy0KlISFyRzTUxnj5KtA

This is a teaser for my short story End of days from my Echoes of the Mind’s Eye collection. It is by far the darkest,...

Today’s Haikus

The Rose

Possess not the rose,
Once cut, it bleeds, withers, dies,
In freedom, it blooms.

Photo (c) Victor D. Lopez 2010, 2021

Busy Bees

Busy bees fret not,
For their endless toil will yield,
Sweetest recompense.

Photo (c) Victor D. Lopez 2010, 2021

Justice

When conformity,
Is imposed by government,
Tyranny has won.

If freedom of thought,
Comes at the cost of one’s life,
It is worth the price.

Hear me read my short story with the same name at the following link:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7oEx2bqyLeKqlPCwm25XMe?si=giVmk2xfTZuUetweuhx7tw

Redemption: Haiku teaser and link to my reading of the complete short story

Success obsessed man,
Beautiful apparition,
A life turned around?

You can hear me read a preview of my short story by the same name at https://open.spotify.com/episode/5JMPqo2zjpjeQNdykL7920?si=_UfXMsjfTKyROXQhw9MNjA
A young executive on a self-engrossed path meets a beautiful apparition at a friend’s party that has him take an unvarnished look at his life. Will he change his ways?

This is one of the 13 short stories from my Echoes of the Mind’s Eye collection.

Madness

Why do we explore,
All dark, pothole-riddled streets,
Not bright open roads?

Why do we stumble,
On the same obvious rock,
Time and time again?

Why is it we vote,
For mendacious fools each year,
Hoping for a change?

Are we that obtuse?
Do we thrive with pain, failure?
Or are we insane?