Mind Sprocket

We tell stories.

Mind Sprocket gives voice to simple and honest perspectives. We publish thoughts and experiences on our world. We tell stories.

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Weird Fishes

Daniel Williamson cannot sleep without falling into his vivid and dangerous dreams. I hope you haven’t been taking too much Scripotophypro.

Pithy Tales

Weird Fishes

Daniel Williamson cannot sleep without falling into his vivid and dangerous dreams. I hope you haven’t been taking too much Scripotophypro.

The Librarian and His Wife

Michael Denton and Sylvia Pots own the only private library in Massachusetts. That is until a gerbil-sized creature of surprising danger decided to intervene.

Accounts & Glimpses

This is My Heaven

I know what heaven looks like in all four seasons. I know what it looks like in the summer. I know what heaven looks like in the fall. This is my heaven.

Drink, Drink Up, My Friends

A tortured soul’s free-flowing drift through a drunken night in London.

Her Eyes Do Not Break

She doesn’t smile much, that woman. Eyes averted, she is the lone bird left to perch on an iron-wrought fence on a foggy, winter morning.

Verse

Dancing Out of Time

The young man who owns
Café Zia dances with a mop.
He is curious about my ear cuff.
Guess he’s never seen an old woman
wearing a lover on her ear.

Defiance

The spring wind in Carlisle is a poisoned heat—
the vile sting of Zephyrus’ noxious kisses rage street

On Writing

Fiction’s Prism

There is nothing new under the sun, except people, stories, love, and life.

Apologia and, Potentially, Prelude

On her return to writing after a lengthy absence, Bethany shares some of the wrongheadedness that can dissolve one’s creative work ethic.

Halfway Around the World to “Somewhere Else”

Living halfway across the world in the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, this new author loves being “Somewhere Else” completely.