haiku 128
long after
the storm…
mammatus
haiku 119
rainstorm leaks inside —
stairwell becomes
waterfall
Fiction: Blinding Light
The storm had taken out a power substation and Max and more than 1,500 others were without electricity. The summer afternoon darkened quickly and the storm was upon Max’s home.
Having nothing else to do, Max sat and watched the storm through the bay window. He saw the lightning briefly illuminate the cloud-dimmed windows in long and short bursts.
“It looks like an old signal lamp,” he said to his old dog, Freda. “Just like I used back in the Navy. I wonder what this storm is trying to tell me.”
haiku 117
midnight storm —
cat uses shoe
as a pillow
haiku 110
gray storm clouds
briefly
occlude Venus
haiku 77
I knock down
a small wasp nest –
the storm hits
haiku 73
highway –
my car meets
the storm’s rain shaft
haiku 65
forecast fulfilled -
southern skies fill
with storms
Fiction: Murder in the Mansion
The storm raged on, showing no signs of abating, and nearly covering the sound of gunshots inside the Salvorson mansion.
Three men, who had come from different parts of the mansion, stood around the body of their late, unlamented business partner, Brock Salvorson. He was lying at the bottom of a long, steep flight of stairs.
“If it weren’t for the multiple gunshot wounds, we could have said he fell,” Ian Irwin said.
“I think we must also rule out suicide,” Philip Ordell added.
“Gentlemen,” said Tate Fanchon, “one of us is a murderer.”
“And we all have motive for killing the S.O.B.,” Ordell said.
haiku 2
pea-sized hail
wakes me
early spring storm
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