Author Archives: riverwriter

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.

Stone on Stone

NaPoWriMo 18: 1956 more than a mile underground. I was the rookie in this work. I designed it to be read aloud. “drift” tunnel to the stope. “stope” the work face at the end of the tunnel. Continue reading

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Pale

NaPoWriMo 17: a dramatic monologue by the mother of two young boys. Continue reading

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Moonsong

NaPoWriMo 16: My initial concept came from Norman Jewison’s wonderful film, Moonstruck. I was thinking of that moment of the discovery of “Cosmo’s moon”. But my introspection led me elsewhere. Continue reading

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