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.
Invasion by Art Cerf Emerging from a fog, the New London Lighthouse symbolizes all of our emergence from the fog of pandemic. The troops were nervous but well prepared…insertion at 0900 hours. Intel had warned the enemy might already be in the area, so they must be prepared to fight from the instant they land.…
Cheating Fate by Art Cerf Fate travels on the wind and a whim. Birds are returning for Spring, and we thought you might like this Chickadee, even though it has nothing to do with this story. It gives a New Jersey auto mechanic tens of millions of dollars in the lottery and a block away,…
I wrote a story featured in the February 2021 issue of Pen World Magazine. We have been given permission to reprint it here. Check out the February 2021 issue of ‘Pen World’ Magazine! They loved our blog post about Parker’s Vice President of Foreign Sales Frank Matthay and asked us to write a more pen-centric…
Four Guys Walk into a Bar by Art Cerf Sunset au Groton…Connecticut. As usual just a pretty picture to enjoy with the story. A priest, a rabbi, a TV evangelist and an agnostic walk into a bar. Sounds like the beginning of a great joke but in truth, it’s the beginning of a story. The…
We need more serenity in our lives. Enjoy this sunset over the Thames River in Connecticut. Teetering on the brink of a new civil war, perhaps it is time to use the Dr. Martin Luther King jr. holiday to reflect on fulfilling his dream in a whole new way. In his quest for equality, fairness…
The Price of Guilt By Art Cerf Here’s the first snowfall of the year in Connecticut. It has nothing to do with the story. We just think it is beautiful and as good a way to illustrate this story as any. Mike and Jill had been married for almost two years and still behaved like…
The Hit Business By Art Cerf Here’s a tufted titmouse on my roof. It has nothing to do with this story, but I love these little songbirds. Elliot Myers was a second-rate song writer and a third-rate musician. On the dark side of 30, he lived in his mother’s basement and had no job other…
There are so many beautiful scenes to photograph in Connecticut in the fall…especially a stone wall leading to oblivion. “Wheee!,” cheered Jane, clapping her hands for encouragement. “Look at that little girl run.” Vick looked up from the papers he was grading and smiled at his mother-in-law. “She’s adorable.” There was nobody else in the…
Here’s a Fowler’s toad lurking in the grass…or is it? Enjoy our modern fairytale. Ilke and Streusel were walking through Germany’s dark, primeval Black Forest. They had been lost and wandering for days. “Ilke,” her little brother called. “I’m hungry. Why did our evil step-mother send us on this horrible quest to find dingleberries in…
Autumn is our favorite time of year. Even if you can’t party or trick ‘r treat this Halloween, you can still curl up with some good horror movies. Pandemic Halloween totally sucks! Halloween is easily one of my favorite holidays. It captures all of the romance of autumn, along with all of the primal frights…
Big Bad Ed By Art Cerf From here to eternity. Autumn closes in on Covid for Big Bad Ed. Ed Brevington was a big man, a hard man, a tough and loud man. He spent his days in backbreaking labor as a roofer. He spent his nights in bars, looking for anyone who would take…
From Zoom to Eternity By Art Cerf What type of mushroom is this? We found it growing in a Connecticut forest. It has nothing to do with the story. We just like catching your eye with pictures we like. In olden days, Henry Prichard might have been a traveling engineer or linguist. But now, he…
