haiku 77

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I knock down
a small wasp nest –
the storm hits

haiku 73

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highway –
my car meets
the storm’s rain shaft

haiku 65

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forecast fulfilled -
southern skies fill
with storms

Fiction: Murder in the Mansion

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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.

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haiku 2

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pea-sized hail
wakes me
early spring storm