LITERAL REMAINS

These two poems that I’ve just posted, “You Remind Me of a Song” and “To __”, are some very old pieces that I wrote way back when.  Way, way, back when.  I don’t even want to think about how long ago it’s been.  Really, it’s scary.  But they are two of my favorites that I’ve [...]

I have a new story up.  “The Little Boy In the Short Pants”  It’s a very short story.  I think the kids are calling it flash fiction these days.  Anyway, it’s posted, and you have been invited.
Hope you enjoy it.  If not, then here’s to next time….
John
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I’m tired.  Just a little bit.  Allergies have me down.  Plus my hours at my day (night) job have changed somewhat, and so I’ve not been a-postin’ away here at LR as before.  But I’m trying to do some work, don’t worry, I’m getting to it, got some things brewing.
As this is Thursday, and I [...]

With the release of Halloween II this Friday, I thought I would give my opinions on the rest of the series; what I think are the high and low points.
Halloween:  Arguably the best, and also a classic of the horror genre.  I can’t remember who said it, it may have been John Carpenter himself, but [...]

Yeah, I really should have been finished with this story a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve just been kinda piddling around.  You know how it is.
It’s called “At Night When the Demons Come” and it started out as one thing and became another.  That seems to happen a lot to me.  The central idea [...]

Okay, so, I was looking at the Poetry section and realized I had not posted any poems in quite a while now.  So I started looking through some of my files and thought I would post some that were not so “downer”, you know, maybe put some up that were a little more optimistic, maybe.  [...]

Hey everyone, what’s shakin’?  I’ve been, well, I’m not going to lie to you, I’ve been kind of lazy lately.  I know, I shouldn’t be, but I’ve had so many distractions the last couple of weeks or so, I just haven’t done a darn thing.  Do any of you ever get to a state of [...]

A couple of years ago, after my grandmother passed away, my family and I were going through some of her belongings.  My grandmother was a shutterbug, she loved taking pictures.  And she kept almost any picture than happened to fall into her possession.  So it was kind of cool, despite the circumstances, to be going [...]

Is it ever too early to begin thinking of Halloween?  As I begin writing this, it is 107 days until Halloween.  Just a few days ago, a friend of mine said she wished it could be Fall all the time.  And I thought, Hells yeah!  Imagine it.  How awesome would that be?
I love Autumn, the [...]

Life is a highway

Hello, how is everyone?  Great.  It sure is hot out there.  What’s that you ask, how hot is it?  It’s so hot I saw two fire hydrants fighting over a dog.
Moving right along…
I posted a new story, ‘The Ruins In Summer’.  It’s different.  It didn’t turn out quite the way I thought it would.  But [...]

I like architecture.  Churches, houses, barns, everything else that appeals to me.  I like driving the back roads and exploring old farm houses, the old barns.  I like driving around downtown Nashville and taking in the high-rises, but also the old buildings, the ones that look wonderfully creepy.  You know those old buildings.  I even [...]

I have posted a new story over there under the short fiction, a small little narrative called ‘Loss Creek’.  It’s sort of a quasi experiment for me.
One of my favorite books is The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.  Great book; if you haven’t read it, I strongly urge you to do so.  Anyway, it’s my [...]