Watermelon Goblins, A Short Short Story

Check out Teresa Valle’s flash fiction story, Watermelon Goblins, on her blog, Cuentos, Little Stories by Teresa.  (Note: the link points to the full poem which has a couple of slightly off-color words.  Nothing major, but I like to warn people.) 
Here is an excerpt:
There’s a story everybody tells about a box that should never be [...]

A Poem About Poems — Naomi Shihab Nye

Thank you to Amy Sorensen, a.k.a. The English Geek, for bringing this poem to my attention in her post, Why I Love April.  It’s by Naomi Shihab Nye and was written in response to one of the poet’s students asking her to write him a poem:
Valentine for Ernest Mann
by Naomi Shihab Nye

You can’t order a poem like you [...]

Freakin’ Donkey-Butt Comment Spammers!!!

Okay, I try not to cuss in this blog, so you can replace “Freakin’” and “donkey-butt” with words of your choice.
One of the things you have to contend with when you put something on the internet and then open it up to comments from the public are spammers, or people who will only comment on [...]