Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge, if applied liberally to stubborn driveway ice, will melt it in seconds.* This week's word is...

This week's theme is "password", and my 250 word story resides  here

Guy  Kawasaki  and Martin  Lieberman , among others, have started a thing. This is called "Last Blog", and you are supposed to wri...

Suicide, or as the Bard called it, "self slaughter", seems to be a theme in my readings these days. There's  Lori , who wri...

This week's 52/250 Flash theme is "long distance", and my contribution is  here .

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge, if properly appreciated, could probably end the turmoil in Egypt. This week's word is "...

Oh my God, you have to watch this!

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge lifts the light of freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere, 100 words at a time. This week's ...

This week's 52/250 Flash is on the theme "Border Town", and my addition is here , called "Close To The Borderline".

Banquet Speech by Ernest Hemingway (excerpt) - Media Player at Nobelprize.org "Things may not be immediately discernible in what a ma...

1. Vanessa  Woods'  book "Bonobo Handshake". I heard about her on PRI's "To The Best Of Our Knowledge", and I we...

I hate you because I've been trying to put something into words for all of my adult life, and you managed to do it in two sentences.  ...

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge was almost entirely not responsible for the Jets' victory over the Patriots last week. The wo...

The 52/250 Flash has come into the world again. This week's stories are about "animal behavior", and my story, "Meeting T...

The inimitable Velvet Verbosity, who is as close to invincible as mortal beings can hope to be, has issued another 100 Word Challenge to wo...