As small businesses around the country feel the pressure of the COVID-19 economic crunch, there is an absolute need to shield local industry and businesses from going under. While Corporate Darwinism has its place, certainly, in allowing old and failing business models to gracefully exit the stage, a sudden shock event like the pandemic is […]
Category: Writings
The Replaced
“I grew up surrounded by orange groves, beautiful lakes, and stunning beaches. Now look at this place. My childhood home was destroyed to make room for a highway, the orange groves have all been replaced by overpriced ‘luxury apartments,’ and the lakes are all devoid of natural wildlife except for algae and amoebas.” -Overheard at […]
Cat’s Keep
Many of the stories told today begin on great fields of battle where a dashing, young soldier distinguishes themselves through acts of daring valor. These stories follow the gallant blade as they returns to their lord’s keep – massive citadels of stone and loyal men – to receive land and title for their bravery. Perhaps […]
Mad Lads 2
The music – if in fact music it could be called – had attracted a small assembly of caravaneers and merchants outside the closed iron gate of Grobar. The usual sounds of livestock and petty arguments about suppliers were replaced this morning by the unusual sound of metal banging on stone as the diminutive, blue-haired […]
Mad Lads
For his entire life, or at least as far back as anyone could remember, others had called him Lad. No other name would fit the wiry, excited, young man whose typical pursuits involved serving his noble patrons, The Thrushes, in their illicit endeavors. Today, however, Lad was involved n a different sort of pursuit as […]
Homecoming
The walls of the room were streaked with a full palette of colors, swirling about in an abstract fashion. There was a time when the room would have been described as vibrant, but now that vibrancy was tarnished. The paint was chipped and peeling in many places, and the walls had more than a few […]