Dr. Agonson – Page 228 – Tale Told

Winter Will Come

I thought I’d take the time to think it over, reflect upon what happened in the past, and maybe find something, some hope— There’s nothing here; it’s just a scab.…

Poem: Will-O-Wisp

The haunting glow there through the mist —so quickly fading out of sight— of what, pray tell, does it consist? What be this strange and eerie light? A will-o-wisp, I’m…

Anon

He sat with the dead, his back to the open coffin. The collar of his suit was undone, escaping the bounds of ordered symmetry. One lapel came up like a…

Short Poem: Wilfulwuls

They are deadly when they sing, and what sorrow will they bring, those wilfulwuls, within the night when they have you in their sight. Dashing through the ev’ning air, you…

The Truth Will Set You Free

We have all, at times I think, had this experience: We have been lectured to by someone who knows less than we do. It is frustrating, and it is often…

The Jungle Idol

The moss flaked idol waits in the wet jungle where the air is thick as mud and the night as hot and oppressive as the day. When the floods come,…

Strange Story

There’s a strange story they’ve been telling . . . say there’s a ship in port . . . looking for men. Oh, that’s not the strange thing, no. No,…

Drabble: Desert of the Mind

The cold wastes of nowhere are a desert of dreams, and the wanderers there never see the beginning or end to anything. They are cursed, thrown from one mindless rational…

Can We Change the World?

I heard a question today: Can we make the world better? I was stymied. I found I could not give a yes or no answer. I did, however, know that…

No One

15 Jun 202015 Jun 2020

I sit before the fire, watching its orange tongues flicker in the darkness. The stars above are glistening in the blue night. There’s something in the wind, a smell, familiar.…