Pieces of Time – Short Stories

 everythingThat ever was still is, somewhere                —Tracy K Smith My new book of short...

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

- William Blake

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Trompudo Napkin Art – 2

Trompudo Napkin Art – 2

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and information]   This is our second post in our Trompudo Napkin Art series ...   I suppose insulting the Queen made you feel like a man. Wearing a crown requires sacrifices beyond your ability Sir Donald.  (I'm not...

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Trompudo Napkin Art – 1

Trompudo Napkin Art – 1

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   Why do I call our President Trompudo?  Trompudo is a Spanish slang word implying a man with thick lips, blubber lips, grouchy, snobbish, piggish, a man who lies or tells tall tales (think Pinocchio),...

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Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Interlude I

Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Interlude I

 [Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Railway Travel. A journey in a railway train makes me sentimental. If I enter the compartment a robust-minded, cheerful youth, fresh and whistling from a walk by the sea, yet, as soon as I am settled down in one...

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Guest Post: Short Fiction – “F” by Mitchell Zucker

Guest Post: Short Fiction – “F” by Mitchell Zucker

  [Mitchell Zucker has several short stories on this site.  This one is a Think In The Morning favorite.]   Dr. Richard Mann, in a suit and tie, carrying an attaché case, pushes his way through the five o’clock Madison Avenue rush, followed by his cameraman...

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Summertime

Summertime

    It has been said that bad things come in threes.  It’s an old wives tale thoroughly debunked by the mathematician John Allen Paulos, but you’ll never get the conspiracy theorists to disbelieve it especially in the current political atmosphere. I can...

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The Kid Who Loved His Grandparents So Much by Carter Jones

The Kid Who Loved His Grandparents So Much by Carter Jones

Carter Jones is nine years old.  This is his first story.   Once there was a boy, a young boy, who lived with his family in a big valley.  He loved his family but he forgot how much they loved him.  He wanted to run away and live with his grandparents.  He was...

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Political Antinomians

Political Antinomians

Snopes.com   [Click on BLUE links for articles, sources, and more information]   “There is only one heresy and that is Antinomianism.”  John “Rabbi” Duncan   In Christian theology, an antinomian is a person who believes the moral law is of no use or...

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Was It Really That Wild?

Was It Really That Wild?

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   After getting you to give us a freebie glass of wine, napkin art picked up.. a few months later I got the Art Center to give us a room for a cartooning seminar, I got an easel with a large drawing...

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