Sookie's Birthday Surprise

 . . . PRODDED . . Large though it may loom I can ignore a problem in full bloom Until my demon comes in the room To chase me with the pitch...

 . . . A SMATTERING OF MATTERING  Years ago I began playing Scrabble online When I first began it Mattered It Mattered very much My heart wo...

 . . . UNNATURAL Skunks don't spray themselves with stink Rattlesnakes don't bite themselves injecting venom Lions don't tear th...

 . . . WILD SHADOWS Wild shadows on the wall The wind, the trees, the start of fall Nature's art a moment seen Then gone as if a waking ...

  Dear Devil Eric Russel From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966: Eric Frank Russell is a towering Englishman whos...