Willard and the Mayor work to thwart Wallis. Mayor Lemieux also reveals her plan to maintain the status quo in the town of Parford. While the two town councillors confront her over her methods to keep control. Continue reading Wallis and Willard 3: A Town of Intrigue
Wallis has played City Hall to his favour and gloats to his brother about his increasing success. His mission to be the number one funerary service is in full swing. Continue reading Wallis and Willard 2: To City Hall and Beyond
Grave concern spread across the gravedigger’s face. He loved his job digging graves. No one talked to him as he worked. It was perfect… Until his pyromaniac brother opened the crematorium across the street. Suddenly, death did not provide the job security it once did. Continue reading Wallis and Willard 1: A Grave Time for A Cemetery
Sometimes I come across something another writer has written and I wish I wrote it. Of course I’d have to pick something of Shakespeare’s sooner or later. Here’s a line from Hamlet. #blogging #writing #inspired Continue reading A Line From Hamlet
At some point in the creative process a writer of fiction comes face to face with theme. What are the deeper notes of humanity that the story sounds? What is the hidden ether that binds plot, setting and character all together? Continue reading Schematics for Thematics
Sometimes I come across something another writer has written and I wish I wrote it. Here’s a line from Chernobyl. #blogging #writing #inspired Continue reading A Line From Chernobyl
Since my father passed away I find myself thinking of him daily. Sure I have his obituary hanging on my fridge; a stark reminder that he’s no longer a phone call or short drive away. He is the furthest away anyone can possibly be from anther person. But I don’t need that photo of him and that brief snippet, which painfully encapsulates his life in one short paragraph of near meaninglessness, to remind me that he is dead and gone. Continue reading From One Father to the Next
