Bedtime Story — The Mountie’s Verse

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

More soon…

 

 

~kc

Stay Tuned…

…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 of this poem will be this very evening, in the very public setting of the Surrey International Writers’ Conference, wearing an outfit of his choice.

The outfit is more of a costume.

A pretty ridiculous costume.

But, hey — a bet’s a bet. You’ll hear it all here…just a bit later than usual this week.

 

More soon….

 

~kc

Bedtime story – AN EVENING WALK

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 important characters of the story, the setting itself: Dunsepulchre House.

 

 

 

This story is told from the view of someone who has no connection with the house — is merely drawn there by a chance encounter. I hope you enjoy a small taste of the creepy little universe I have been living in since way back in 2006!

 

 

 

 

 

More soon…

 

~kc

September Garden

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 recall that I posted the story of planting my new garden HERE. It’s turned out to be an interesting horticultural experience. We have benefitted from tremendous bounty, yes, but there have also been Lessons Learned. 

Edamame beans do not like growing at my house. Or, at least in a pot with bell peppers, anyway. One tomato plant grew taller than a tree in an effort to seek out sunshine when I planted it in a sun-limited spot. And somehow, my rhubarb, who was happily, massively growing before I left for Scotland, has taken offense to life in my garden and hightailed it out of here entirely. He even patted down the soil after he left, leaving no trace he was ever there to begin with.

A mystery for the ages.

Anyway, the many fine salads I have been eating lately have given me the gardening bug good and proper. Prepare for more foliage in the future.

And now, break’s over. Back to reading!

 

More soon…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~kc

Bedtime story – THE LUDDITE’S LAMENT [A Venery in Verse]

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 is being celebrated this very weekend, so this little reading is dedicated to him.

 

 

 

Short and silly. Hope you enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And, as always?

 

More soon…

 

~kc

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