• In the Moment

    My Round 1 entry for the NYC Midnight Rhyming Challenge 2025.

  • Rate & Review

    A short, rhyming story about the joys of ordering items online.

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    Our gift this year to Mother Earth More governments beguiled by greedToo late we’ll comprehend her worthAgain more climate debt incurredEach broken record beat, repeat Our gift this year to Mother Earth We all should be on red alert Instead, her sources we depleteToo late we’ll comprehend her worthOur gaze, not crises, we avert Deep…

  • No Adventures

    The road she walked felt smooth and… wrong …

  • Papaya

    Below you’ll find my (unedited) entry for Round 1 of the NYC Midnight Rhyming Story Challenge 2024. My assignment was: Genre: RomanceTheme: Put out to pastureEmotion: Happy “We always knew the time would cometo say goodbye to dear old Tom!For forty years this was your life,alas, you couldn’t find a wife!Tonight we’re gonna send you…

  • The same old job

    Her phone buzzed as she left the scene …

  • The patron

    He just walked in one day …

  • Observe, preserve

    A front desk agent tries her best not to interfere in the private lives of her guests.

  • Begin

    It is early still …

  • To Protect

    The castle walls stood wide and tall / “To protect”, they said, “should villains call” / The princess in its highest keep / “To protect”, they said, “our moats run deep” /