Tag Archives: weather

Bob Welsh Christmas Eve Poem

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Jim Stewart

This is too good not to share: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WxjZB5S_g7s%3Frel%3D0 I’ll get back to my own drivel tomorrow.

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Ironwood Continues from Yesterday

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Jim Stewart

(Note: This follows yesterday’s opening chapter. I may be absent for a bit. I have writing to do.–jrs) Homicide detective Tom Hannarty stood in my office with his chin in his hand as the coroner’s people took the body down … Continue reading →

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Opening for Ironwood #2–Dead Me

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Jim Stewart

(Note: this is one of three openings I’ve written for the “next” Ironwood novel.–jrs) Bucket’s nose in my ear woke me up. I cracked open an eye. It was still dark. I reached out, ruffled his soft ears, and tapped … Continue reading →

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Boomer

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Jim Stewart

Curtains of rain drawn against warmth and sun keep the study, brooding books framed in orange firelight, at the grey edge of darkness. I sit overstuffed in a grandfather’s chair, feet in their wool kicked up on the hearth steaming … Continue reading →

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Weather Weather

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Jim Stewart

Today: Increasing periods of light as the horizon drops closer to revealing the sun. Scattered commuters will give way to heavy traffic and then taper off by mid-morning. Morning will also include brief storms of creativity, followed by doldrums in … Continue reading →

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A Lovely Chaos – from The Talons of Quantum

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Jim Stewart

The long black car slid to a stop. As she approached it she heard the windshield wipers keeping time. It seemed out of sync to her, but she had been out of sync with everything since she woke up. The … Continue reading →

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Three Bens and a Maybe

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Jim Stewart

It began, as adventures often do, on a regular day with normal weather. It was a Tuesday, I think, and the weather was damp and cold. Great low-hanging clouds drifted up the mountain from the ocean and ripped their bellies … Continue reading →

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