The Garden Is Open

 

The poem is about a patch of Grass

The ones behind The Ones Behind the Bookshelves have published a poem of mine. It is called The Garden Is Open and may or may not have been inspired by a joke in the film Love and Death. 

Ben Takes a Gothic Turn

Pictured above is Frederick III, German Emperor. He was Kaiser for only two months in 1888, until he succumbed to throat cancer. This early demise paved the way for his son ,Wilhelm II, to take charge of the German Empire. We all know how well that went.

What does this have to do with me? Thanks to Macy Skov at A Suffer's Digest, a short story of mine based on the Kaiser's malady is now published. It is called Bureau of Barbarians and is up and ready to be read.