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Most of my writing (at least 90%) during the past 3 years has been narrative prose. I've been fussing with another genre. These are WIPS (Works in Progress). I'll appreciate any reactions, thoughts, criticisms, and suggestions.



#1.          Grandfather

Grandfather requires winding
In order for his innards
To keep time and chime
On beat.

Should Grandfather stop
Because someone forgot
To key him up, that's not
Fatal actually.

When the desired time
Coincides with where his
Hands stopped, rewind and restart the pendulum.
He lives again.





#2.      Snowflakes

All have a nose,
Two ears and two eyes.
A mouth and chin complete
The face. With these
Dittos, how can
Each one not be alike?





#3.              Immanuel

They summon their Immanuel:
Oprah, Oprah, the Barbies exult.
Crickets wait for Judge Judy,
Then have paroxysms of joy
When Bird and Judge emerge.
Tyra, Tyra, the Thumbelinas chant.
Each time the floor director gives
The cue, the Tiffanys enter a
Different world, riding My
Little Pony to a place where
Life begins with a pulled string
And a memory chip. 

J.C. Penny and Valentine's Day gifts.

These books aren’t sold at J. C. Penny, but they’re easily available elsewhere. When paired, they’ll make great Valentine’s Day gifts!

1. SONGS OF SADNESS, SONGS OF LOVE, by Larry K. Andrews. (Mystery-Romance) This is the story of Ryan Graves, a young boy growing up. Not only does he have the usual fears of adolescence, but a physical disability causes him even greater agony and heightened fears and of being rejected by his peers. The reader watches this young man as he goes through middle school, high school, and the university with new emotional challenges at each level. This is a study about how people respond to challenging experiences in their lives; some people are overwhelmed and defeated by their challenges while others accept and accommodate them, moving onwards to successful adulthood.

2. THE CHINA-AFRICA PARALLAX: A RYAN AND GILLIAN MYSTERY, by Larry K. Andrews. (Action-Thriller) The China-Africa Parallax: A Ryan and Gillian Mystery describes how representatives of China and Africa are conspiring to steal research data from major US universities. They will kill anyone who gets in their way in order to achieve their ultimate goal: China’s economic and military domination of the world. This is a fast-moving mystery with an emphasis on today’s geo-political issues and economics. Ryan Graves and his wife, Gillian Davies, characters introduced in Songs of Sadness, Songs of Love, assume perilous, key roles central to the FBI strategy to thwart the devastating conspiracy.

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I Need Your Support

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What the World Needs

"So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919) 

Culler Conspiracy

I had a good morning writing chapter 14. I needed a transitional section . . . and this morning I was able to write through it!

The Culper Conspiracy; #3 with Ryan and Gillian again

I'm on page 75 of my third action/adventure novel with Ryan and Gillian fighting the bad guys. The Nathan Culper Brotherhood is conspiring to"cleanse" universities of their faculty members who aren't of Anglo-European stock. 

Save the Internet

Federal intrusion into the operations of the Internet is a bad, horrible idea. I don't want Willard Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, or Barack Obama, or anyone else telling you what they will permit you to read about or permit you to write about.

Call the nearest office of your elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives (rather oxymoronic, eh?) or the U.S. Senate and tell them hands off the Internet.

Why? Read Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), or The Day they Came to Arrest the Book (Nat Hentoff), or It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis).

Censoring the Internet?

Federal intrusion into the operations of the Internet is a bad, horrible idea. I don't want Willard Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, or Barack Obama, or anyone else telling me what they will permit me to read about or permit me to write about. Call the nearest office of your elected members of the House of Representatives (rather oxymoronic, eh?) or the Senate and tell them hands off the Internet. Why? Read Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), or The Day they Came to Arrest the Book (Nat Hentoff), or It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis).