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Smells like a hayloft
I live in Texas. It’s always hot in the summer. It’s always hot and dry. This year it’s been ridiculous. The other day I walked out into my front yard to circle around and take my car to work. A smell...
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Plaza of the Americas, DART Station at Night
DART train at the Plaza of the Americas (click to enlarge)
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Rain
It hadn’t rained here for months. The hot weather and tinderdry vegetation (all the plants I have tended for years along my back fence are dead, my lawn may not make it) felt apocalyptic. However, one...
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Ice Melts in the Rain
Help me, I'm melting! It was a cold (well, cold for Dallas) wet and miserably gray day. Storms all night and rolling bands of rain driven down from a dark sky all day. A perfect fall day to huddle...
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Rainy Day in New Orleans
New Orleans is over a hundred miles from the ocean, but it is barely dry. Rain comes quickly and unexpectedly… except it is always expected. Luckily, there is a source of refuge in the Big Easy –...
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Three Bicycling Stories
A Photograph Doesn’t Do Justice I like taking photographs, though it is ultimately a frustrating and futile exercise. I see an image in my mind and I want to commit it to pixels, but I never can. What...
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Short Story Day 1 – The Fall of Edward Barnard
1. – The Fall of Edward Barnard by W. Somerset Maugham http://www.online-literature.com/maugham/the-trembling/3/ Over the years, I had not read very much… not anything, really, by W. Somerset Maugham....
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Train in the Rain
Most near-future fictions are boring. It’s always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. —-Haruki Murakami (click to enlarge)
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The Great Floodgates Of the Wonder-World
“…the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open…” ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale The ponds at the end of my block, Richardson, Texas All my life I have wanted to live on a creek lot....
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You Will Be An Ocean Too
“Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan I have written about it...
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Sunday Snippet, Archipelago by Bill Chance
They liked to ski in that area because of the hundreds of small islands that cut the wind and waves and made for the smooth glass-like surface that was so fun to ski on. But the area was like a maze,...
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Short Story Of the Day, Heat Wave by Bill Chance
She stopped for gas. Shoved her card into the slot and clicked the automatic hook-deal on the handle so the gas would flow on its own. Susanna purposely stepped back, out from under the sheltering gas...
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Short Story Of the Day (flash fiction), Brain Teaser by Bill Chance
“Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of...
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Flash Fiction of the day, In the Rain by Steven Barthelme
“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”― Charlie Chaplin The view from my son Lee’s apartment – New Orleans, Louisiana Since I enjoyed yesterday’s story by Frederick...
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The End of the Drought
“It cannot be described, this awesome chain of events that depopulated the whole Earth; the range is too tremendous for any to picture of encompass. Of the people of Earth’s unfortunate ages, billions...
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