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THE FOG…8-24-72
The fog is rolling in, An ethereal blanket of gloom, Like a sheet pulled over a corpse, To seal its final doom. The fog keeps rolling in,...
billsheehan1
Feb 21, 20211 min read
NON-VIOLENCE (poem 1-26-71)
If old man violence Would take a rest, To stop to suckle Upon a breast, The world might pass The “Human Test,” And those most crass Might...
billsheehan1
Feb 21, 20211 min read
GAMBLER AND WISHING WELL (poem 5-8-70)
Come gather around the well. Come gather around the well, I have a story to tell, About a man who dropped a quarter Into this black, deep...
billsheehan1
Feb 21, 20211 min read


Soldier Ghost poem
Ghosts noisily roam In my mental zone. Ghosts of those slayed For wrongs they played In a time long gone In a war long done Where...
billsheehan1
Feb 18, 20211 min read


Looking Up at Death
I fainted. As I was returning to reality I felt as if I was floating in a rocking and rolling boat. My head started to clear, but now I...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 20216 min read


Wine-Making Weekend
I woke to a pleasing memory of my Grandparents. A memory, not forgotten, but possibly fading. It was as if some internal stimulus was...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202112 min read


The Black Door
It was a dark and stormy night … Fuck you Edward Bulwer-Lytton, screw you Madeleine L’Engle, but most of all, piss off, Snoopy. It really...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202113 min read


New Principal
Journal Entry NOVA is an astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright new star. That was the inspiration for the name...
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Feb 16, 202111 min read


Maid of Honor
I like water. Something about it attracts me, like a pleasant experience that I want to always have. I think that water likes me, too,...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 20216 min read


I Would Give Anything
I have been a detective first-grade for twenty of my thirty-four years as a police officer. Sure, after that many years, I am tired and...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202110 min read


Hitch-Hiker
“Shit,” I yelled as I ran to the parking lot in a torrential rainstorm. Just my luck, I muttered to myself. I had been working late in...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 20218 min read


God Made Me Do It
Christian Boyer is a twenty-one-year-old college graduate of Reverend Luke and Martha Boyer. Christian grew up in a deeply religious,...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202119 min read


Brandy
Arriving home from work, tired and in a foul mood, Jack walked directly to his wife. “Fix me a brandy, the Korbell, not the cheap Mohawk...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202118 min read


Bald Face Mountain
PROLOGUE Approximately eighty-four million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, a meteor the size of a football stadium struck and...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202119 min read


Bad Apples in Time
I am Reggie (Reginald) Townsend, and this is my tragic story. Maybe I’m one of those mad scientist guys who gets obsessed or, perhaps...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202111 min read


In Cold Blood
“I’m sorry, Mary. I truly am. It won’t happen again. I promise.” Mary’s slender body ached from the bruised cheekbone and the black eye....
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202123 min read


Aliens and Idioms
Cave Entrance It was an alien experience. Never had anything like it. Funny as a laughing clown, shocking as an unexpected bullet wound....
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202126 min read


Airplane
It’s difficult to write about this strange occurrence because I don’t know where to begin. I do know that I was in an airplane. How I got...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 20215 min read


Karma
The horror of death is rarely seen the way a soldier sees it in war. At least the way a soldier with at least a rudimentary conscientious...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 202114 min read


A Possible Trip to Hell
One fall day I woke up to find that one of my two dogs, Frosty, was missing. Toby came running to me when I called. He knew it was time...
billsheehan1
Feb 16, 20219 min read