Author Archives: kc dyer

A spooky story for a dusky autumn evening. I hope you enjoy….altered from an image by D. Sharon Pruitt, creative commons                                           More soon…   ~kc

    Late to the party but no less ridiculous, I bring you this poem — The MOUNTIE’S VERSE, written in homage to one Corporal Tyner Gillies, writer and bettor extraordinaire. And later this week — right on schedule this time — a creepy Hallowe’en tale will arrive for your Friday night enjoyment.    Continue reading “Bedtime Story — The Mountie’s Verse”

…as this week’s Bedtime Story has been postponed until this evening. It is the [sorry] result of a Big Bet I lost this summer with a writer friend of mine. The prize he won in beating me in our Summer Spectacular Word Count race is…a poem, lauding him and written by me. The performance ofContinue reading “Stay Tuned…”

A glimpse into the world of Lascivia and Hysteria; the Hatchett sisters, housekeepers to Dunsepulchre House. Not a really happy place…                         More soon…!   ~kc

The first in a series of linked stories. We begin with Dorothy Clarke — the story of a very old lady…with a plan.                   More soon…     ~kc

This story is from the realm of my CEILIDH world, though not taken from the actual story itself. It is, instead, a little piece of the periphery of the story, introducing some of the denizens of this universe. A little cat, an owl and, most importantly, one of the less animate, though no less importantContinue reading “Bedtime story – AN EVENING WALK”

In which a life-scribe shares her secrets, if you listen carefully…                                                             More soon…       ~kc

Home for a week and am in the midst of reading a plethora, a colossus, a veritable flood of contest entries. Not quite as many as we’d like, mind you, but still …lots of reading.       And so, I pause in my reading a moment to give a garden update. You may recallContinue reading “September Garden”

This is a piece of doggerel I wrote a long time ago [it’s actually printed on a dot-matrix printer…!] but I thought of it because I was teasing my friend, the Incredible Writing Mountie, Cpl Tyner Gillies, recently, and used the term.   However, Ty is not really a Luddite, and his new book isContinue reading “Bedtime story – THE LUDDITE’S LAMENT [A Venery in Verse]”

In which Hamish and his sister Allie find a few answers — and even more questions.                       More soon….   ~kc