Flames — Because It Isn’t There

Joseph W. Robertshaw

In deeper pools and eddies whirls time can stand near still, To nourish and revive the wood
Before it babbles down the hill.
Opportunity breaks the surface and just as fast is gone Tumbling along in the frolic of the flow,
A rolling rock, a mossy rolling stone.
Time slips away, liquid, cool, insistent,
Beneath the verdant shroud of circumstance,
Unerring and unending, unhalting downward to the sea.
Chance may bend the course of time and wrest her from her bed Spilling out to feed new lands
Or revive some forgotten desert sands.
For now the rushing torrent sound as it runs across my face, Reminds me that the river soon in other forms,
Will return again to this place.
I am just a mountain so I must stand and wait.

Spark by Michael Marshall Smith — Spark by Michael Marshall Smith

My name is Joseph Robertshaw. I like poetry and prose and try to write both. I was asked to leave my high school English class and my high school but all these years later, I have just written a fantasy book. I have dropped out of high school and have earned two master’s degrees. I have taught cooking, safety, customer service and now, for the past five years, First Year Composition. I am a husband and a father and, in my life, I have killed turkeys, cooked chickens, thrown crabs, siphoned salmon. I have been a stay at home navy spouse. I have sailed the Bering Sea and rolled through Europe on the rails. I currently live in Ohio and I expect to earn a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing in 2018.

Roger Scouton

The leader, dressed in his robes of silk, wool, and gold, steals a last look on his enemy-free shore. A storm is beyond the sun.

Roger Scouton grew up in Minot, North Dakota. In 1974 Roger began his studies at the University North Dakota School of Law. After graduation Roger clerked for a United States District Judge. Thereafter, he entered private practice. The long legal career added to his life experiences by exposing Roger to a variety of “dramas” in both the criminal and civil settings. Roger developed the art of storytelling over the years as he wrote legal briefs and presented oral arguments. Currently his writing projects include screenplays and novels. His sites are here and here.

The first Jack Fields and Amber Reyes adventure GOLDPLAY was published in 2013. The adventure continues in VEYRON. Roger is currently working on Jack and Amber’s third adventure, DESERT ICE, as well DINNER WITH LUCIFER, and a young reader science fiction novel.