26 April, 2023
The Haunting on Sunset Hill (a One-Shot Story)
This cute little building was the fraternity house on the college campus that made me whole. But it’s also where I survived my most terrifying “paranormal” ex...
19 April, 2023
Confessions of a “Windmill Hog” (a One-Shot Story)
Yes, I confess. I’m a “Windmill Hog.” I learned this sad truth when Kate and I took a tour of the Rhine and Mosel Rivers in August, 2005. One of our...
12 April, 2023
The Eyes of Venice (a One-Shot Mystery Story)
Few people, I think, would doubt Venice’s beauty. But when Kate and I visited just before Covid closed Italy in 2019, I also noticed a bit of the city’s darker side.
As we st...
5 April, 2023
The Film Noir Cake Stand – A One Shot Story
In early December I spent a few hours over the course of a couple of days attempting to take shots inside Greenwich Market. As the result of a comment to my last post asking if ...
29 March, 2023
Fourteen Years in the Making! (A One-Shot Story)
Between 1998 and 2012, Kate and I visited Rome four times. And one of her priorities was always to see the inside of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone on the Piazza Navona.
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She was a living painting hanging above a gloomy stone staircase. A bit of sexual theater.
This anonymous sex worker, erotic dancer, or model earned her daily bread quietly con...
15 March, 2023
The Jumping Bird (A One-Shot Story) – By Dave Powell
In May 2020, word went out that gangs of Baltimore Orioles had invaded Massachusetts. Fresh citrus is one of the birds’ favorite treats, and as you see, I strung a chunk of mand...
8 March, 2023
Money from Mars (A One-Shot Story)
Obviously, this is a “One Nundred Minapools” monetary note from the “Republic of Mars.” It bears a beautifully wrought likeness of the planet’s “Capable Leader” (in a typically ...
