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"Ahoy, starboard side watch! Fishing trawlers on your quarter. Current not likely to bring them closer, but have the crow's nest man keep a weather eye on them when he comes aloft to relieve me." Over a period of eight years, young Ahab Falworth had routinely booked passage for the two of...

You're plagiarizing a long-ago Quaker. Just go eat some oats.

I might be about to plagiarize myself, because I forgot I already _had_ posted a sonnet written for Geralyn's survival. But the above poem _didn't_ refer to Evening Star's recovery, so I'll post this one for them both...

EVERYBODY HAS TO GET BORN SOMETIME. SO MARY TEACHES AHAB TO BE A _NICE_ PIRATE.

There was a comic strip in the Fifties through Eighties, called "Pogo." The titular character was an opossum dwelling in the Georgia wetlands. All sorts of Talking Animals lived there as well. My focus here is on "Churchy LaFemme," an erect-standing turtle. (His name is a takeoff on a French...

Meanwhile, back at the ranch dressing bottling stand, Brosimya was tasting some of the nectar and ambrosia being sold by a lady named Honey Bean. Soon the wicked princess remarked, "This taste of honey is a taste much sweeter than wine." "Thank you for saying so, Your Grace, I mean Your...

The man blinked. "I never saw a blue parrot with a short beak!" Flakefeather patted the man's shoulder with a wingtip. "I'm not a parrot echoing back a human's words. Hmmm, dibba-dibba-dibba-dubbi-dub, let's see. I'll recite a poem." The man sat on a bench. "Go ahead, recite. More...

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It is in the Oklahoma-based "Star Cavaliers" prequel that Tom and I have our avatars, Bruce Wallace and Rufus James respectively. It's "Giants in Oklahoma" which is set less than fifty years into the future, and it features the sort-of Nephilim-equivalents known as Krivvords. The most effective...

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There can't be any worse horror than being attacked by an unbeatable assailant from whom you can't escape. In my early childhood, my nightmares often involved such a no-win situation. For instance, I once dreamed I was a dirt farmer in the Old West, being attacked by vindictive cattlemen. I...

The very fact that you use numerous characters does you credit. Lots of novelists imagine they're streamlining the plotline by describing only six or seven characters, but no real-world situations are confined within such a narrow handful of people. Overall, you're doing very well. Where...