The flipped coin landed on its edge. Allison honored our bet and slept with me. Can’t wait to see what else that magic store has.
Author: bryon
Quotable 150
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
– Maya Angelou
haiku 262
I throw out
the damaged keepsakes
Mom can’t bear to
#quikfic 49
My kids went home with their mother, leaving two dozen Easter eggs in the fridge. I ate one daily and remembered the fun we’d had.
Quotable 149
You can fix anything but a blank page.
– Nora Roberts
haiku 261
warmer days –
pretty young women
shed winter cocoons
#quikfic 48
“You want my body?” she asked. “God, yes!” he said. “Good. I want yours.” She drew her gun and fired. “At the bottom of a lake.”
Fiction: An Ever-Present Day in the Woods
“You have come at an excellent time, Mr. Geduld, as I am about to complete this painting.” He shook hands with the writer. “Please have a seat and you may observe. I trust that will be useful for your book.”
“Indeed it will, Mr. Truitt, and let me thank you again for this opportunity.”
Truitt smiled. “The opportunity is mine, Mr. Geduld. To be included in a book about the great painters of our day will be quite the honor.”
“I believe the chapter about the life and work of Peter Bascomb Truitt will be of the greatest interest, sir. Are you painting this still life with your particular method of merely glancing at the canvas?”
“I am, as I will now demonstrate.”
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Quotable 148
Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being.
– David Foster Wallace
haiku 260
spring sleet fills
roof valleys,
potholes