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About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.

Mirror

NaPoWriMo day 16: sometimes it is okay to hate mirrors, but does that make one a vampire? (#1067) Continue reading

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Incantation

NaPoWriMo day 15: has your computer been working properly lately? Think about Mercury, blub blub blub. (#1066) Continue reading

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stoneheads

Sitting in the roots of Hell on an excruciatingly hot ember is, I hope, the I.T. wiz kid who programmed the Western Union website. I expect this ember will etch indelibly and painfully into his ass or if he is … Continue reading

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