Category Archives: Fiction

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. He jumped the split rail fence with the casual … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Daisy is carrying an old copper coalscuttle across the … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. After enjoying the buffet lunch at The Emperor Babur … Continue reading →

 NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Daisy Briscoe is painting at her French easel off … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. I am looking for quick connectors and a soaker … Continue reading →

 NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Goldenrod is blooming heavy with pollen.  Tall clumps grow … Continue reading →

 NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. It is 99 degrees outside with humidity hanging in … Continue reading →

“No one knows why, Herman. The world is simply given to us.” Continue reading →

“Yes Fred, and Boyd seems to be in such awe of him … I would like to know where the money is coming from?” Continue reading →

“Vacuum tubes. These were the things in radios before transistors and printed circuits.” He has a vast number nested in boxes. There are tall curvaceous cylinders and small ones with straight sides. There are a few with metal cladding. Continue reading →

“Bel, we can’t work it out …”

“No not as the children of our parents or of God.” Continue reading →

“Death … all this death … our lives depend on the death of other living things … we live by death then we die Fred … think about that.”

“Our eating also renews life.” Continue reading →

“She couldn’t be there any way. The Chairman has no business at the nominating committee meeting. I’ve served on enough of them to know. She should have acted outside the meeting, and she knows it.” Continue reading →

“Augustino, that jerk! Steve I don’t care if he is in or out of jail. I don’t know why Daisy got so wound up about it.” Continue reading →

“Do you mean they arrested Juanita?”
“I am sure they have taken her away.”
“Have you talked to Gale Diddlie?” Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. I happened to meet Bel Vionnet and Steve Strether … Continue reading →

  NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Diddlie walks over with the two boys both … Continue reading →

“Lib’s going digital dude. I’ve got it figured.” Niels gets back in the car and talks to his boys. Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. Dead leaves have blown clear from around the picnic … Continue reading →

“I hope Juanita has papers.”

“I guess so, I mean I’ve never asked. You know how it is with them.”

Only a swing of the door occasionally breaks the stillness.
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