Heckle & Jeckel were animated magpies featured in cartoons starting in 1946. I looked them up on Wikipedia and Youtube because Channel 11 in New York used to run their cartoons on Saturday mornings. I've never seen them on Cartoon Network. From what I learned, they weren’t based on any people. Foghorn Leghorn was based on a Senator. Daffy Duck was ( Read more... )

Last week, I had a scene from Dream Dancing that I didn't use. This is the conclusion of that scene. If you want to know how the character really fares, you can buy DREAM DANCING as an e-book or in a local bookstore or on line at Amazon, B&N.com ( Read more... )

Carla knew she was on a bed, but she could feel her body lifting higher and higher. The motel room was below her and she flew through the clouds with the birds. The guy left her a long time ago ( Read more... )

Carla found a motel that charged forty dollars a night. The room had a king bed and a small table. The television worked. Once the lights were on, she saw peeling wallpaper. The bathroom had flies ( Read more... )

Below is another out take from Dream Dancing. I wrote a lot more that didn't make the book. The book is available at iunverse.com or at the Kindle store. It's also available for the Nook ( Read more... )

The scene below was something I thought about using in Dream Dancing (now available for Nook and Kindle at $3.99). I put it to the side until now. Enjoy ( Read more... )

Gene and Nancy talked about the office while Nancy’s husband Paul listened. Jane, Gene's date, pretended to listen, but she kept watching the guy in the back of the restaurant. She excused herself and went to the bathroom ( Read more... )

His friends told him that Laura was as dense as a rock. She got into college because her parents went there and donated heavily to the college scholarship program. Rob lived across the dorm from her and he often saw her at the college pub. She asked for his help in a Calc course in junior year ( Read more... )

“I thought we had something,” she screamed at him ( Read more... )

Short story about underage drinkers ( Read more... )