The Highway Man

The Highway Man

The autumn wind was taking a stand and declaring summer to be over. She put on her best face, scudding thin clouds across the moon, baring trees of their coats, relieving folks of their hats and most of all whipping skirts and dresses around the legs of women daring...
THE HALLOWEEN RIDE

THE HALLOWEEN RIDE

Deep night, a slice of moon Bright as a dagger All things warm blooded well hidden The souls on this eve, return for a chance To beg their past sins forgiven Standing at the forefront grinning The dust a disembodied beast I heard his thundering wagon approach His grin...
Snap Dragon Ladies

Snap Dragon Ladies

In New Orleans, in the Garden District, where the warm air lay on your shoulders like a cat, lived the widow Madam Gardner. Her house was a pale pink color with great white pillars. A black iron fence surrounded the velvet lawns, ancient twisting oaks lined the...
Little Black Hen

Little Black Hen

You might think chickens are creatures that go around pecking at the ground, looking for bugs and now and again laying an egg, as though it were a surprise to her and to you. They fluff their feathers, squawk for unknown reasons, jump at shadows that appear out of...

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