The horses well rested and fed snorted at the dawn showing their defiance. Bring the day, bring the cold of the morning and the heat of midday. Bring mud and hard packed earth.
Bring rain and drought. And if this is my last ride then bring me
home, to the place of rest. No fear in the wild eyes of those, only
the excitement that comes with accepting the world as it is and
embracing their place in it.

The first sentence was boring.

The second sentence, although considerably longer, was not much more interesting.

When he considered adding a third sentence, one that would grab the…

A bee hovers near my children as I push their double stroller down a sidewalk in Sugar Land. It occurs to me that my brother was severely allergic to bees so I fear my two and three year-olds might be also. I stop the stroller and peer over the visor to be sure the bee is gone, then before resuming our walk I stare ahead at a pleasant memory of my older brother David, of him saying, "Look over there!" then sneaking extra toys into my Cracker Jack box. I remember the yellow plastic giraffe,…

"Why may you ask am I speaking of my offspring at a…

Turning the corner he had walked too many times to remember, Ashton was suddenly snapped from the partial catatonia that was so characteristic of his daily return journey by a most peculiar sense that he had passed from a reality he had all too much come to take for granted into an entirely different place he simultaneously perceived to be both comfortably familiar and wholly alien.

He (like you) drew in a deep breath and stared down at his feet; the pavement below him,…

Not fiction, I have had a concept in my head for over a decade often articulated in seriousness and greeted with laughter and derision.

I grow desperate as does the world for if my assumptions are correct it ends the need for the heavy dependence our world has on fossil fuels .

I have searched the web offered engineers money to simply manufacture one small critical piece to test my theory and had no success because people say what for then ignore me as they do not like the…

I’ve never been in court before, and everything changed the moment the armed bailiff escorted us upstairs. All the chit chat downstairs died on our lips as we shuffled into the wide open room. In God We Trust in gold on the back wall, high ceilings slotted with narrow windows to let in heavens light, hard oak benches that made me wonder if I should genuflect and say a prayer. Should I pray for the…

My lawyer friend from the city decided that he was tired of the rat race and wanted to move to the country. His dream was to become a chicken farmer ? So he bought a nice farm in his favourite part of the country , moved in and started to plan his chicken business. As it turns out , his next door neighbour is also a chicken farmer. The neighbour visits him one particular day and says , "chicken farming isn"t easy , but I am so glad to have you in the area , so to…