Thursday, December 3, 2015

CHIFFON LIME AND LEMON LIGHT

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                High pitched horse whinny trailed off into truffle rooting pig snorts, pierced ears of cafe partisans, reined in all convers...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

SOUFFLE SOIREE

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                "Does no one," Chef Noir swung open kitchen door, "love anymore?" Dread paled the faces of kitchen staff...
Friday, September 25, 2015

AN ARK OF OUR OWN

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Mass evacuation, a true story: Hurricane Rita, September, 2005:                       Fleeing down Hwy 71, nearing the I-10 underpass at C...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

WHEN ITCHY GETS SCRATCHY

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            "Molasses is my name, slow sweet lovin' is my game," she purred.             "Spring time in hell... is no ...
Friday, September 4, 2015

IVY ENVY

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            Two, two finger Irish coffees, please." At hotel restaurant table, Ivy placed order, added half moan sigh, hung her head to...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

MOUNT WHATEVEREST

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            "Beauty beyond measure," in the sweltering heat of the beach, his tongue licked peak of chocolate and vanilla double s...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

REVENGE OF THE GOURDS

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            "This sounds easy," Kerrie Sue encouraged her cooking challenged self, while reading cookbook. "I knew I bought t...
Monday, June 1, 2015

I NEVER PROMISED YOU A HERB GARDEN

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            "Every town has got one," apron clad proprietress Sally Lunn hissed at headlights peeking through Buttermilk Donuts st...
Monday, May 11, 2015

WATERY WEATHERED WISPY WINK

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            Bleak black blank blink... watery weathered wispy wink... nothing out... nothing in... bleak black blank blink... watery weather...
Friday, April 24, 2015

NAUGHTY FIGS

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                "No wonder I couldn't find it," Adam Figg feigned aha moment, plucked favorite coffee mug from cupboard. ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

CROQUETTE ROULETTE

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                How does insomnia happen?  Well, first ya get up to tend to a mild case of salmon croquette roulette, fully intent on crawli...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

CALL ME AMBI

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                Though Ambi said little, she knew that some, perhaps all, bear no less than at least one thorn; a thorn in the flesh innate ...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

GOOD GRAVY

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                "Where's the gravy?" Echoed within the walls of the Sun Rise Diner and the ears of Flo.  Plate laden with scra...
Friday, October 17, 2014

THE RUSH TO CAUTION

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                That old road... that old road down yonder... is just about as long... as it is long..." Luke drawled, took sip of wine...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

FINDING AMNESIA

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                Gone but not gone, like a contrary pet hiding under the house, amnesia had been missing for quite some time.  "Funny,...