Fighting Debt and Bad Health [among other things]
Posted in Meanwhile..., Short stories on Jan 1st, 2009
The kitchen sink drain system is #2. The toilet flange (the thing that the toilet is bolted to) still being a solid #1.
So, two days ago our kitchen sink clogged or at best was draining very slowly. After saving the kitchen from an over flowing dishwasher and the like, we had to act. We tried [...]
Posted in Short stories on Dec 12th, 2008
Lately the strangest thing has been happening. We’ve been seeing umbrellas laying around here and there. It used to be shoes that were laying around then again they still do. So, is it a coincidence that we’ve seem them laying around? I think not! I shall explain.
Umbrellas, what do we use [...]
Posted in Meanwhile..., Short stories on Nov 5th, 2008
It’s over, finally. I was pretty sure Obama had this in the bag especially in light of the financial crisis. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time for the GOP ticket. More than that though Obama ran a better more energized campaign. Even Ben Stein said the McCain campaign was the worst he’d ever [...]
Posted in Short stories on Jun 20th, 2008
So here’s a frickin’ list.
I call this, the Laws of Lewis (yes, that’s LOL)
If you take food into a room and someone comes in behind you and asks if something is burning then yes, it’s your food, no matter how tasty it is.
When you find one particular sock it’s against the law of socks for [...]
Posted in Short stories on Jun 19th, 2008
Posted in Short stories on Jun 13th, 2008
One by one
They fall away
As if to say
Forget it now
You don’t exist
Leave my space
Rest your presence
The normal restraint
Restrain, Release, be safe now, until next time
Then it starts all over again, restrain, restrain
Would rock if there were some actual music to go along with this… *sigh*
Posted in Short stories on Jun 10th, 2008
Einstein, evolving monsters, shape-shifters, large bells, relativity, destruction of a planet, laws of physics, defying reality, traversing long time scales in moments, uncovering hidden secrets through a living earth, preserving the past, present and future, staying busy, always looking over your shoulder, informing enemies of their weakness, educating a species on thermodynamics and gravity, outside [...]
Posted in Short stories on Apr 1st, 2008
That day as we cleaned up in our basement, rummaging through boxes of unending junk, I found a bow. It was red, shiny and unused. It was by itself in this box of doo-dads and had never been used. I wondered how it got into this box but I put it aside and kept digging through [...]
