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This is where you will find short stories, personal essays, and guest posts. Family and friends and the ordinary business of life are the inspiration for this section.
Short Fiction: Where is Santiago?
Dónde está Santiago?When Santiago left town, everyone went crazy. The señoritas swooned. They pulled at their hair and tore at their dresses and ran around in a hopeless state of despair. Fights broke out among the young men who vied against each other to become...
Poem by Think in the Morning: Between the Days
Between the Days Between the days that fill a life You jammed your youth into a socket With just a nerve to register Beneath some skin that fits a body Beneath some hair and sweat With just a nerve to register What, left unnoticed, moments passed. Between the...
Short Fiction – A Cautionary Tale Based on Personal Experience
Herman Piakowski sat in the Mexico City airport. Crowds of tourists and locals streamed by. Herman looked at his wife, Betty Lou while she listened to two girls they saw on the plane flying down. “So, you really use it, that cream?” “Hell yes. Like, it hurts...
Poems – 9
As is our custom, this is the ninth posting of poems and napkin art first posted on our Think in the Morning Facebook page. Private Alamo Tom Chandler O'er the ramparts I watch you come gallantly streaming, buckskin cornlikker stinking of texas....
Guest Post: The Swan and the Sculptor by Mitchell Zucker
Think in the Morning loves to post stories and articles by our friends. This is the fourth story we have posted by Mitchell Zucker. It is a beautiful story that we know you will enjoy. Mitchell Zucker © 1990 A young sculptor was walking through...
Poems – 8
[Click on BLUE LINK for more information] Think in the Morning posts a poem with a sample of napkin art on our Facebook Page every day. This is the 9th post on our website of accumulated poems. Other poems and links can be found HERE: Poems - 7 ...
Poems – 7
[Click on BLUE links for further information] Think in the Morning posts a poem and a selection of Napkin Art every day on our Facebook Page (search for @ThinkintheMorning). This is the 7th group that we have consolidated on this blog. Poems – 1...
The Downside of Inheritance
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. Barry Switzer “Money isn’t everything,” said my mother, “but it...
Poems – 6
[Click on BLUE links for further information] On Think in the Morning Facebook page we post a poem every day with a selection of Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art or a photo. To receive these daily poems and napkin art on Facebook, “Like” our...
Guest Post: The Parolee by Mitchell Zucker © 1979
[Click on BLUE links for further information] THINK IN THE MORNING COMMENT: When I turned seventy and retired, I decided to do only what I wanted to do. No more doing what I thought I should do or what others thought I should do. Others includes both family...
Guest Post: Once Upon A Time In The Pigmy Forest by Mitchell Zucker
[Click on BLUE links for further information] Mitchell Zucker © 2017 Second place winner California State Parks and Mendocino Study Club, Pygmy Forest Story Contest, Sept. 10, 2016. The rules called for the story to begin: “Once Upon a Time in the Pygmy...
Poems – 5
[Click on BLUE links for more information] On Think in the Morning Facebook page we post a poem every day with a selection of Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art or a photo. To receive these daily poems and napkin art on Facebook, "Like" our Facebook page....