July 21, 2012
As the bus started up again they slipped back into the darkness and only the thin thread of light along the ceiling of the bus held them together, brought the back of the bus where she sat along with the front of the bus where the driver sat and the people sitting there so far […]
July 8, 2012
Up to Tahoe goes the loon for just a week. He’ll be back soon.
July 7, 2012
“Yes, sir,” a nattily dressed new animal salesman said to him chattily as he stood gaping with a sort of glazed, meek need at the displays. Phil selects nattily and chattily for use in this sentence from his future noir tale, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
June 30, 2012
The panel was made up of three Examiners, just as the regulations had promised. From the cerebral futuristic scifi deal, GENESIS.
June 23, 2012
The Great Plains of North America, on a cloudless day, stretch out forever under an infinity of bright blue sky. Thus openeth CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER, another gem by Ambrose, the non-boring historian.
June 17, 2012
And with a swimming curtsey Miss Betty Barker took her leave. A delightful sentence from the delightful CRANFORD.
June 16, 2012
BLOOMSDAY TOAST Here’s to – Nora the barnacle goose – Skin-the-Goat – the giggle fit of bronze by gold – the blind stripling piano tuner tap tap tapping along – Stephen deep in thought strolling on Sandymount Strand – socks with skyblue clocks, jaunty – Plumtree’s Potted Meats, which can make of each home an […]
June 9, 2012
Mr. McCoy and J Palmer killed a large Grizly Bear in tolerable order and on opening him found nearly in the center of the lights a stone Arrow head together with about 3 inches of the Shaft attached to it. Mountain man writing in his journal in 1828 while camping near the Sacramento River in […]