Writers Harbor

Author: Francis Meyrick

  • Yer Fu-Fu-Fuk’n CAT

    “The good-looking guy is ME… the dude with the epaulettes? Some frickin’ chopper jockey… “ YER Fu-Fu-Fuk’n CAT (Life’s a dance. As writers, we should explore all aspects of the human existence. Not all is gloom and doom. Some aspects of life are touching, some are ironic or wry, and some are downright funny. Here’s…

  • Materialism of the Mind

    Materialism of the Mind Materialism has been defined as an “interest in and desire for money, possessions, etc, rather than for spiritual or ethical values “. I’m sure most people associate the word with cars, houses, and paper dollars. I suspect there is a worse form of materialism. I think this second form of materialism…

  • Going to Confession

    GOING TO CONFESSION (a true story, based on childhood memories, that have lasted a life time) My mother was a devout Roman Catholic. When I was a child, we lived in Holland for a while, and I was very impressed at the way she went to the big Dutch Catholic church as often as she…

  • Separation

    Separation (to the music of the Main Theme of “Missing you ” by Vangelis) Have you ever… been in a crowded, smoke filled bar? Surrounded by people, all of them, glass in hand, talking their heads off? Have you found yourself withdrawing inside your mind? Wondering how they manage to all talk at once? With…

  • She, the love of my life

    She, the love of my life “Honey…! “, I shouted through to kitchen. From where I could hear coming the reassuring clatter of pots and pans. “I’ve got a reviewer here who reckons I’m self absorbed! What do you reckon to that, eh? “ She came through, dish cloth in hand, and stood by my…

  • Beating on the glass wall

    Beating on the glass wall I found myself beating crazily almost hysterically on the glass wall invisible but invincible that our society from birth surrounds us with. We are men our role models abound: John Wayne Clint Eastwood Donald Trump Ken Lay and all the other shining examples of virtuous chivalry stiff upper lip brawn…

  • A kinder, more gentle Cyberspace?

    “We’ve got tonight ” Bob Seger A kinder, more gentle Cyberspace? Cyberspace. What an amazing invention. I wonder what William Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, or Mark Twain would have made of it. What would they have thought of its potential for good? And… what would they have said of its dark side? It’s such a shame.…

  • The one night stand

    The One Night Stand They had arranged to meet at a popular eating place. He, the amateur writer, the compulsive scribbler of verse and song, and she, the successful, liberated career girl. It was, as was fashionable, the girl who had invited the boy out. He had accepted over the phone, and now they were…

  • Did you ever…

    credits: Vangelis ( “Misty “) Kraustrujillo (YouTube) Did you ever (thinking of my Mother, who died when I was young, thinking of my daughter, and remembering walking alone along a quiet beach in Angola, Africa, with the waves coming steadily ashore…) Did you ever, stand on a shore, and gaze out to sea? Did you…

  • I flew alone

    I flew alone (An allegory of Man’s eternal quest for love) I flew alone in stormy skies and forced my tired, aching eyes past looming clouds and dark despair through lightning laden night time air in desperate search for guiding light with only ragged tops in sight. The hungry mountains mocked my breath cold granite…