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~Bootless~As a boy, I began to keep a
record of things, to write stories and songs. Daddy and Momma fought a lot over
his drinking. She got beaten and he went to jail. ~WordWulf~
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~Pariah~Momma got no fat kids.
Proud and fearful, she prays. She works at the club restaurant bar, a ten-penny
waitress, pinch and tip, empties plates into her hideout bag, treasures she
smuggles home to her litter. ~WordWulf~
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~Confirmation of Darkness~There’s
a tin man howling, whose body is a whistle stop where blackbirds rest and
cackle, dance across his stiff arms, make sport of his scarecrow appearance.
~WordWulf~
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~XVI: Galloping Sin~Eyes in a leather face, ladies laughing and talking, a
muddy bath for dead soldiers, medal pins, children playing, away from the herd,
stallions drowning. Did you know she was strangled, her throat full of blood,
drowned as well? ~WordWulf~
http://WORDWULF.com/CLOSER-TO-HOME My grandson, Bill, holding Mia
(born yesterday). Mia's big sister, Belle, kissing. Momma, Maraya, certainly
looking on. These are generation, they are family.
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~Imagine the disappointment if a wolf found out its descendant was a pug. That’s
how your grandpa feels when he sees your man bun.
Tom Sterner is a writer. He lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His internet pseudonym is WordWulf. A native of Colorado and proud father of five children and a stepdaughter, he also writes lyrics, sings and composes music with his sons. He is winner of the Marija Cerjak Award for Avant-Garde/Experimental Writing and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2006 and 2008. Published work includes two novels, Madman Chronicles: The Warrior and Momma’s Rain.