Father Lawrence C. Smith

If you haven't read "The Silmarillion", you ought to. Tolkien wrote a whole lot more than "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".

If J.R.R. Tolkien had kept going...

Five parts, one story. One story, many lives. Each soul is an author.

This is not autobiographical, but it is about me. "Me" is anyone with twenty-three sets of chromosomes.

An Elf's rendering in song of Book IV, chapter 9, of Tolkien's "The Two Towers".

You are what you eat: Good food. Junk food. Fast food. What if you eat nothing? Hmmm. Here's some food for thought...

Written with the End of the world in mind...When I say "End", I mean Telos!

Based on something almost but not entirely unlike what is herein described. It somewhat took place seven years before the current millennium.

A rat is not a mouse. A mouse is not a rat. The fundamental rules apply, as time goes by!

This is a true story -- and almost completely factual, too!

Written to give your grammar check a nervous breakdown.

This is a poem. It is referent to memories of the North, South, and Midwest. Saving the best for last, so to speak, the title is the final word of the poem. The lack of capitals is intentional.