Wayne Brown, Author at The Creative Exiles

airplane

Creative Writing Short Story

PAPER WINGS

August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 Wayne Brown 3141 Views 3 Comments airplanes, ashes, behavior, engineer, ocean, wings

Life’s Lessons On A Paper Wing (Source: ignitebc.com) It was just a paper airplane—a thing of child’s play

laundromat

Creative Writing Short Story

WASH-DAY WEDNESDAY ROMANCE

August 23, 2017August 23, 2017 Wayne Brown 2542 Views 6 Comments accountant, cemetery, kids, Korea, lady, laundromat, laundry, Mercury, Norma Jean, parade, soldier, Starlight Cafe, war

Laundromat Romance (Source: fanpop.com) My first marriage ended suddenly in divorce–something I would not recommend to anyone. A lot

dufflebag

Creative Writing Short Story

HEADIN’ TO TUCSON

August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 Wayne Brown 2272 Views 5 Comments Fort Worth, hunger, ice storm, rail-car, Tucson, vagrant

(Source: deshacohistorical.org) The cold, steel latch handle of the box car sliding door is covered with a coating of

gin

Creative Writing Short Story

Gin House Blues

July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 Wayne Brown 2890 Views 8 Comments bartender, Beefeater Gin, corner bar, gin, Wayne Brown

“Let’s have one more, Maggie” I say to the middle-age bartender as she wipes down glasses from the washer.

Agnes

Creative Writing Folklore

Henry’s Last Letter

July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 Wayne Brown 3000 Views 3 Comments insane asylum, last letter, pleading, sister Jane, Wayne Brown

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Some who have read the following letter have come away confused thus I feel it

prairie night

Poetry Rhyming Verse

A Clear Prairie Night

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 Wayne Brown 2654 Views 4 Comments campsite, cowboy's lot, heavenly sight, prairie night, stars, Wayne Brown

A campsite under the stars; a clear prairie night Stars twinkle overhead creating a heavenly sight A campfire is

folks

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Sodbuster’s Creed

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 Wayne Brown 1934 Views 5 Comments crops, folks, hard-scrabble, ol'farm, thank God, Wayne Brown

Folks like us … This hard-scrabble ground has remained the same Ain’t changed one damn iota from

tulips grow

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Where Tulips Grow

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 Wayne Brown 1971 Views 5 Comments creek waters, old farmer, special place, time comes, tulips grow, Wayne Brown

There’s a place up the valley where the tulips grow The long grass is green and the creek

vacant lot

Creative Writing Memoir

The Vacant Lot

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 Wayne Brown 2093 Views 6 Comments baseball, baseball field, grumpy man, mowed grass, vacant lot, Wayne Brown

The Prelude: To us preteen kids of the early sixties small-town-Mississippi, it was just a vacant lot. Kids

accented melody

Poetry Rhyming Verse

WORDS ON THE PAGE

April 28, 2017April 28, 2017 Wayne Brown 1526 Views 4 Comments beautiful line, candle flame, man's heart, muse guides, poetry, song

accented melody of the soul … They say there is a song in every man’s heart Written in the lyrics of

Free Verse Poetry

Old Farmer

May 26, 2016May 26, 2016 Wayne Brown 3004 Views 8 Comments bless, farmer, God, prayer, trader

By: Wayne Brown Dressed in your overalls; your rundown old work shoes Years of farming sun creased the

Little One

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Dear Child

May 26, 2016January 23, 2017 Wayne Brown 2526 Views 5 Comments dear child, God, Heaven, prayer, sadness

By: Wayne Brown What is this child we give to God? What could its life have achieved? How could such

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