Dave Nicolette — Writing
· · · Short stories
Mind Your Manners!
When two cultures first meet, nothing prevents misunderstanding more effectively than to follow protocol meticulously.
Justice
Sometimes Law can't outrun justice.
Link
It doesn't pay to monkey with Mother Nature.
· · · Poetry
Aleatoric poem
I fed the results of free word association into Google's online language translator, and got this.
Close encounter of the fifth kind
When they come, I will be ready.
Haiku
A short collection of short verses.
Limericks
A few original limericks.
No one is there
A mirrored verse.
Staring back at me
On which side of the mirror is the object, and on which side the reflection?
7 verses in 70 seconds
The result of an exercise to break a mental block by forcing myself to come up with well-structured haiku very rapidly.
Who's to say?
If light travels faster than sound, does darkness travel faster than silence?
· · · Bulwer-Lytton sentences
Parodies of the original sentence
My Bulwer-Lytton sentences
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
· · · Essays
You say tomato, and I see potato
What happens to the brain when words and gestures don't match? It happened to my brain, and it wasn't pretty.