Helene Thomas

Take a little tween-year-old who frequently gets spanked. One day, when she was ready to be reprimanded, she spanked herself. She should have spanked her parents and said, “Bad Parenting!” A mother took her three-year-old Maggie to the playground after she picked her up from the sitter. She was playing in the sandbox, and her…

    As we get older and everything fails, eyesight, bladder control, strength, etc, we cloak ourselves in the illusion of more independence. The less we can manage the more we depend on our proud independence. Ogretum comes on when your centurion age is roughly twenty years away and sometimes even sooner.             Telltale signs…

My mother was getting up in age, and I called her every evening. A mom has guilt trips down to a fine art and at times felt clueless why I felt so guilty. Sometimes I got a glimmer of suspicion, but hey, it’s mom, and she loves me.             Once I called her twice in…

We celebrated Becky’s birthday at the gym, where she had her weekly gymnastic lessons. We set out all the goodies on a table before the guests arrived. Dan was sitting on a stuffed stool next to a low table designed for kids. Ex hubby number one, Tom, walked in with Shelley. Dan had his head…

Children scene Scene 1 “Grandma, I just plugged up your toilet.” “Naw, you didn’t, that toilet flushes fast like a jet taking off…naw.” “Can I borrow your plunger?” “You’re kidding me?” “Nope!” Grandma looks. “Ach fuey that’s an elephant turd, how are you going to plunge that down, man it’s almost to the toilet rim.”…

               Dreamt of different shapes and slight variances in sizes the color of coffee beans. Almost like a DNA string, the shapes did not appear to be attached together with anything solid, only appeared to be connected. I was analyzing different shapes and worked on modifying some of the…

 (We were kicked out of that forum because we had so much fun writing stories.) It all happened so quick, placed on an entangled electron, instantly transporting us to a lab, impressive. We looked around and were rushed into a cubicle. Two orderlies dressed in hazmat suits pushed a hypodermic needle in our arm. One…