A Row of Watermelons

Here's another new story. They're starting to gather.
They all seem to be about work and animals...


A ROW of WATERMELONS


After all the talk about it in daily meetings, they finally
manifested the elephant in the room. I can barely get
around it to my desk. It’s got one foot firmly lodged in
the wastepaper basket. What we need now is a row of
watermelons leading out the door to the parking lot.
When it gets hungry again it will be somebody else’s
problem.

The Two Horses

(This from a new collection I'm working on)


The TWO HORSES

I stopped my bicycle for the traffic light and two horses walked over to talk to me. They saw me sitting in the air on a saddle that wasn’t on them. Of course it looked funny and I tried not to listen to their jokes at my expense. Then one of them tossed me a long yellow flower and told me to feed my poor metal horse, it was looking a little thin. Hilarious. Those horses should be booked on the Tonight Show. America could use a laugh.

what's new?

Hello loyal readers. Just letting you know that

Good Deed Rain is busy, busy. My first novel

written in college years will be published to

tumultuous salutes on July 4. Florida is available

to pre-order on Amazon. I'm real excited about

that book, it's a fun sunny read for you. Also just

completed writing a new novel set in Bellingham

that I've been at work on since last October.

Stay tuned for that. I can let you know it stars

a character named Haiku, an overdue library book

and a haunted spoon. In addition I've been working

on a new book of stories/poems. I'll share one

of those in next post.

FLORIDA

Just sent the new Good Deed Rain book
FLORIDA off to the printer. It's 224 pages.
Beautiful cover by Hanah Lee. Stories &
3 cartoons, sunshine and inspiration.
Publishing date is June 17. Hope you all
are excited to read it. 

another star

Another star of the new book on the way soon:

Some Other World

SOME OTHER WORLD

Alexander Graham Bell carried his invention

with him wherever he went. And he made a

grand point of stopping on the boulevard every

so often to talk into it. His loud words would

trail off in crowds, into served meals getting

cold; his laugh would bray as he carried on

with his monologue. He seemed oblivious to

the glances around him as if he was half mad,

in contact with some other world.

The Upside-Down Cloud

Another excerpt from the next Good Deed Rain
book. Stories written in Florida and inspired by
the sun.

THE UPSIDE-DOWN CLOUD

Sitting in the blue sky, it just turned over. All

the pots and pans rattled down, all the loose

change and cushions off chairs. With everything

in a jumble, it floats like a whale, silent

until it rolls again.