Drippy Musings
59 Original Stories posts. Fiction and essays written here: the Decameron 2020 project, the Westenra Memorial stave, the ninth-anniversary novel post. The writer behind the repairman.
Mr. Gelz was old. Mr. Gelz (G like gills; rhymes with bells) was mostly bald. Mr. Gelz & Mrs. Gelz had grandchildren. Mr. Gelz smoked a pipe and wore short-brimmed fedoras. Mr. Gelz celebrated one birthday by getting a stunningly all-white concrete 2-car-wide driveway. Mr. Gelz scolded all the kids in the neighborhood for using…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is chapter 2 of my on-again-off-again novel “Westenra Memorial.” You can read Stave I from last Halloween with this link. Stave II This photo of a spring peeper frog has nothing to do with this story. I’ve just been meaning to use it for years. Shambling in through the front door of…
It has been a little while, but I have a new story in Pen World Magazine! In it I uncover not one but TWO pen heists that targeted the Parker Pen Co. in the late 1940s. This story is reproduced here with permission from Pen World. Please click on the individual images to see the…
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the first chapter to a book I have not completed. Quite frankly, I’m not sure anyone would want to read the whole book. As such, let me know what you think. Should I push ahead? Stave I This photo has nothing to do with the story, but didn’t a certain…
Cross sold the Sheaffer Pen Company to a company in India called William Penn. “Pen World” magazine asked me to get to the bottom of this news event by interviewing the owner of William Penn, a smart, hard-working entrepreneur named Nikhil Ranjan. If you ask me, Sheaffer is in better hands than it has been…
Norwich’s largest Civil War memorial can be found on the Chelsea Parade of the “Millionaires’ Triangle.” Here in the United States it is Memorial Day. For many, it is the unofficial start of summer and a day off work and school to gather with family and friends for picnics and barbecues. The true intent of…
The sequel to my story in Pen World Magazine is now on news stands. Click each photo to read each page of the story. We have permission to reprint it here from Pen World editor Nicky Pessaroff. Be sure to subscribe to Pen World to read this and many other great stories about pens. Click…
Just what is it that makes a pen vintage? Many people are asking that question these days. As time advances, are the old definitions of “vintage” and “modern” really holding up? My article in Pen World Magazine is the first of a two part series. In Part 1, I put the question to 4 legendary…
EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote this story in 1995, at the age of 19, for my creative writing class in college. At the time, the term ‘fan fiction’ hadn’t been coined. And, you couldn’t turn on the TV or go to the movies without a serial killer somewhere in the story. I’ve been downsizing my life…
Preston, Connecticut, is home to several abandoned asylums for the mentally deranged. They make Arkham look like a pleasure zone. This story has nothing to do with asylums but it is an awesome photo for Halloween. Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, this shall be Art Cerf’s last “Decameron 2020” story. Perhaps he will come up with some…
Peanut Scurrying into the town of Mouseville, a little grey traveler named Erasmus visited in hopes of seeking shelter from the rain. Yet, on the streets Mouseville, between the basement and first floor of a century-old Sears Craftsman home, all was not well. Oh sure, there were the happy signs of chewed on wood debris…
Bad Blood by Art Cerf Spring Peepers have nothing to do with this story, but we just like this photo. Stories about him have been around as long as people have told stories…the undead, Nosferstu, Dracula. Perhaps the origin of the name came from Vlad Dracul…Vlad the Impaler, a man with so much blood on…
