Cool Baby

Hidden among the cobwebs in many family attics are the ghostly remains of Granpa and Granma's wild past.

Clair

copyright Lou Carreras - 2025

The Grey Menace liked going into class with me almost as much as he enjoyed parties.

Messes

In college, I had a professor who had his lecture notes bound in leather. Two things were unfortunate about this: first, the paper was plain yellow legal pad paper - not a very durable choice. But more importantly, he had decided that his lectures were immutable, perfect, and never needed changing.

Comfort

The color will do. It's a nice min-waffle too.

Bay Rum

Scent is a very personal thing; to some, the right scent is a melody of pleasure

Crystal

Listening to Lucrezia, you'd learn that her family was a long line of scryers and clairvoyants.

Committee

" Blame it on, Caine. It's nobody's fault, but we need somebody to blame." So goes a line in one of my favorite songs.

Wake Up!

If you've read my work for a while, you know that I'm a prose person. I'll read poetry, but other than a lousy haiku, I don't write it. A while ago, I ran into the poem I am presenting below.

Faces

I had a friend who, whenever something struck him as both profound and annoying, would tug on his sizeable red beard and state that, "I'll have to cogitate my veritabilities."