I only received a few entries in the Halloween story contest. They're short, so I've put them right into the newsletter for your reading pleasure. Please drop me a note with your vote for your favorite so I can send the lucky winner one of my books....
"Fire in his glance, and wildness in his breast,He feels all his former self possest;He bounds--he flies--until his footsteps reachThe verge where ends the cliff and begins the beach..."--Lord Byron -- "The Corsair"Before I get to my thoughts on "Pow...
"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - General George S. PattonSpeaking of challenges - don't forget to submit your entry in the short story contest. Not to exceed 350 words and must include a Halloween story feat...
Winston Churchill is credited with saying, "Success consists in going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."I've had a recent success with one short story and have finished the draft of another. My story, "Freedom on Wheels" will appear...
"Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused....
"It is the property of every sorrow which overtakes us to reawaken past griefs which we believed dead, but which were only sleeping. The soul has its scars as well as the body, and they are seldom so well healed but a new wound can reopen them."--The...
A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you or I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair— (Even as you or I!)From Kipling's "Vampire"I've completed editin...
"An aged man is but a paltry thing,A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing"--Excerpt--Sailing to Byzantium --KeatsI have in fact sailed to Byzantium. I'm at a new locale across the state where we're temporari...
"How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!"--"Ulysses" --TennysonThe sentiment above is true, but Bugs in the System has reached an end, and it's not dull. It's action-packed and heavily stacked with excitement...
"I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move."--"Ulysses" - TennysonDo you have a favorite line from that poem? If so, let me know.It's...