Now that he was dead, Norman Watts was in possession of certain information that someone in the living world would have given an arm and a leg to discover. Forget Halloween or Dia de los Muertos or any of those other days of the year when the departed are supposed to be revered. They might have been […]
Entries Tagged as 'Mood'
The Mechanized Sorting Day of the Dead
December 27th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Allegory or Fairy Tale, American Humor, British Comedy, British Humour, Canada Humor, Celebrities, Charming, Christmas, Cottage Life, Entertainment, Family Humor, Fantasy, Funny Horror, General Humor, General Interest, Ghost Story, Heartwarming, Human Nature, Jokes, Lifestyle, Literary, Magic Realism, Mood, Music, New Year's Eve, Offbeat, Paranormal, Song Lyrics, Supernatural, Surprise Twists, Sweet, Theology, Uplifting, Whimsy
Tags:Auld Lange Syne·comedy·Dia de los Muertos·feeling down story·funny·funny afterlife story·funny career story·funny Elvis impersonator story·funny Elvis story·funny final judgment story·funny heaven or hell story·funny New Year's Eve story·funny paranormal story·Great Lakes·humor·struggling with the loss of a loved one story·whimsy
The Seagull Poet of Butter Bay
September 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Allegory or Fairy Tale, American Humor, Anthropomorphic, Canada Humor, Charming, Cottage Life, Cute, Feel Good, General Humor, General Interest, Heartwarming, Human Nature, Imagery, Jokes, Lifestyle, Longing, Lyrical, Mood, Oddball, Offbeat, Parable, Poetry, Puns, Satire, Screwball, Slice of Life, Storytelling, Surprise Twists, Uplifting, Whimsy, Wishful Thinking
In a vision, he’d once seen another seagull in a top hat dancing at the Trocadero. It was the most elegant thing ever. He became entranced by imagery and longed to give expression to his own special voice. There was no doubt, he was a poet at heart. That’s what his girlfriend, Sandy Barr, told him. Never […]
Tags:anthropomorphic·at the beach·beautiful imagery·Edgar Allan Poe·feel good·fish out of water story·funny animal stories·funny cottage stories·funny language stories·heartwarming·Jonathan Livingston Seagull·longing·lyrical·mood piece·Nevermore quoth the raven·prose poetry·storytelling·wishful thinking·writing poetry