Tag Archives: word play

Precious Cargo

~~~~~ We never dreamed their intelligence could increase so dramatically, so quickly. Now, I’m frightened and cold, deep underground, where I hide my boys. Still babies, really. Claude, thirteen months, and Alex, just past twenty-three months, I swear. If only Stephen had not been killed, we could have devised a plan. The kinetic strikes destroyed […]

From Top to Toe

~~~~~ Could the Wright brothers ever begin to imagine air travel today? Thirty-thousand feet, wall-to-wall clouds, spread a vast, gray ocean. Can we even pretend to imagine what modes of travel might rule our future transportation, human, freight, concepts, feelings beliefs? Will we perch before flickering blue-screen idols, show pictures of cats, food we eat, […]

Sewing Words Together

  Doves have no tailors for their cotes They only use their cotes for sitting They do employ them for their tails You know, dovetails all need fitting Please note: For anyone anxiously awaiting the next installment of You’re a Real Card, as hard as that may be to imagine, please come back on Friday […]