Sometimes A Pinch…
/It was devastating…
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After 40-some years of hanging out on the planet it finally occurred to me to wonder where I came from. I knew…
By K. L. Shipley
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Just A Thought
/…you wait so long for something, go through a lot while you wait, and while you contemplate giving up, it arrives. Spectacular. And you feel grateful you never gave in. The feeling, the sense of pride…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreGold From The Stars
/Gold will always be…
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… can’t be done. Gold can be only formed from exploding stars. But not just any stars, only stars thirty times larger than our own star, the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWhat Have We...
/…child in my class walked up to me and told me that he spotted me walking to school and he told his dad to pick me up in their car but his father said they were late and the stop would delay them…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreShall We Begin?
/…not lost. So much time has been wasted. But all is never lost. A tree hacked to half its size sprouts again so long as it is still rooted in the…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreIs This Mind Octopied
/Octopuses are mysterious…
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…I was a kid in the 50’s, I was intrigued by Plastic Man’s one flaw in his superpower; his colors stayed the same even when he changed his shape. Those colors were an automatic…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLate At Night
/…night when sleep is far off, pictures of lost creatures precess through my mind. Not a fond memory is found, just dead images of those whom I rarely think of consciously though I…
By Buckspinster
Read MoreIn the Gloaming
/Meaning is important, but so too is insinuation and association.
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…many say, "in the gloaming", these days. Too bad. Gloaming is a fine old Scottish word for twilight, with a poetically mystical cadence in its very pronunciation. Glowing and gloaming are linguistic…
By K. L. Shipley
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