A compilation of poems, essays, limericks, and short stories, BRIDGES is my expression of accumulated wisdom and observations spanning my sixty-four years on this earth. Many of these spans, these personal bridges, are not yet complete, as construction continues as long as I can draw a breath. Someday all will be complete, as will be yours. Maybe herein we will find some common ground, as well as some grounds for friendly dispute. Maybe our bridges are more or less parallel. Perhaps not. Regardless, bridges, literal and figurative, facilitate and exacerbate a life's journey. Bridges take us to places we yearn to go, as well to places we dread. These are some of my Bridges.
Lance Hawthorne, his life irrevocably altered by his witness of a horrific crime at the innocent age of ten, is cursed to shoulder the yoke of guilt for taking no action to report the crime's perpetrators, despite his having rock-solid evidence. His guilt deepens after the death of his beloved mother five years later, a death he is convinced he caused. Hawthorne drifts through life, his faith shattered, his risk-aversion having rendered him all but fearful of his shadow. Until the fateful office poker game offers him a chance to return to his boyhood home of Benevolence -- and to the hell that awaits him. Lance Hawthorne is a man rushing headlong into his twilight, haunted by a past that won't let go and a future that won't let up.
Words matter. Don't they? Of course they do, but the extent they do matter depends on how effective are the conveyances of their intended meanings. We assemble our words - our thoughts and feelings - from the building blocks of vowels and consonants. We string together these letters into syllables into words with the hopes our shades of meanings are clear and unambiguous. That, however, is not always the case. Are you more or less likely, for example, to eat 'candy' or 'milk chocolate-covered caramel candy'? This work is an assemblage of vowels and consonants, formed into syllables and words and sentences, given punctuation and syntax, which I sincerely hope in their final delivery convey thoughts and feelings that in some ways touch your life and provide at least a modicum of entertainment and introspection. And such interpretive meaning that you can call your own.
The follow-up companion volume to Say A Few Syl-la-bles!, Utter A Few Adjectives! is a compilation of short stories, poems, limericks, and comics. This delightfully insightful collection contains introspective studies, stories of the supernatural and the unexplained, reminiscences of a cherished childhood friend, recollections of the author's stay-at-home-dad experiences, the art of the five-line poem, and even offers experiments in stick-man comickery. Sure to please any reader. Enjoy!
The lives of six teenagers are changed forever when tragic chaos ensues in their high school. Now the power to restore order is literally in their hands.
On June 1, 1970, a large crowd gathers at Florida State Prison to protest the execution of a popular cult leader. Poor communication between law enforcement agencies and a powerful hurricane lead to disaster five days later.
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