Welcome to Chestnut Ridge
Chestnut Ridge runs through the center of The Ridges. She might be the heart, or the guts, or the soul.

Here you'll find the entrance to original poetry and prose.

Original Poetry
• Sonnets From an Empty Diamond-- Poems about The Summer Game
• Spring Comes to America the first sign of spring is not a robin
• Spring's First Conviction the summer game is different from the winter ones
• Looking Back on 1988 in Baltimore The year they started 0-21
• Grace Moves slightly metaphysical, I admit, but so's the game
• Series End (Red Sox 1986) They came within two strikes, twice...
  other poems:
• Eliot in April Why is April cruel?
• The Centerfielder Freddie Lynn remembered
• Home Thoughts From Abroad Browning discovers baseball
• Three Run Homers Rupert Brooke celebrates baseball
• Poems on a Variety of Topics
• For Charles and CamillaSometimes it goes like this...
• The Dove Who Came Inside a true story with an uncertain moral
• Port of Call more than time is relative
• A Sapphic Feet of the dawn stallions...
• Old Men on Russian Hill, the old tongue sweet in their ears...
• Ambrosius Aurelianus the forerunner of Arthur
• The Death of Arthur Mighty magics Mordred made there the classic tale, in the Saxon style
• Brotherless Bare is back without brother behind it in the Saxon style, the need for family
• Fantasy: Legends -- Poems from Fantasy with a derring-do or legendary slant
  • A Ballad of Garth and Jessamyn "So Garth took his lady and went to the mountains. Thus both were forsworn of the pair."
  • Arkadi at the Ford -- a forgotten ford, an ancient foe, a lone hero
  • The Forgotten Ford -- another version of the lone ranger at the ford...
  • A Ballad of Varda and Tansen "the sword sang of battle and blood in deep streams. Tansen the Handsome drew steel out to meet her and Varda beheld him she'd seen in her dreams..."
  • Amalie's Song "Who follows the White Stag will not come back soon"
  • The Lord of Vileyka and the Witch "Fox on the moorland, fox on the hill, Hark to my bidding and come do my will!"
• Fantasy: Legends [2] -- More Poems from Fantasy with a legendary slant
  • Terhan's Flight "The season was Yew, the season of doom, of hope and the year the leaden tomb..." the making of a hero
  • Shadows the giver of grace, the Treader of the Dusk, the maker of heroes
  • Varennikov's Ride "Varennikov rides the forest paths, Varennikov owns the night..."a legendary highwayman and his horse
  • And Gwyn Arose "The earl sat late MidSummer's Day with his young bride..." and how he dealt with those who spoilt his mood
  • Ursula and the King "Ursula of the forest came down to Oriol and there she stood before the palace gate..." bad news must sometimes be borne
  • Six Out of the World's Heart "out of that green yet darksome land no man's come back again..."no man, that is, until now
  • The Grey Wolf of Keleris "...shall come back to me as sure as the sun melts the snow on the lea..." lament of the left-behind
• Fantasy: General -- Poems from Fantasy that are more general in theme
  • Silences "still more silently than these walk out the master thieves"
  • Darkness Gathers (a thieves' lullaby) "Now the darkness gathers"
  • A Sestina on the Prince's Death culture clashes when no clear heir is left
  • Lady Kallisfeya's Answer What to say when "no" doesn't work
  • Fire Dreams "In Jolan's Town the Princes sleep untroubled by the dreams that haunt their kingly neighbors"
  • The Maiden and the Raven How to win your man -- and to keep him?
  • Lament for a Northern Lady A bard remembers a lost love
  • Life and Death and Time Life is a lovely girl who dances on agile feet

Original Prose

Note: Due to the fact that most of my fiction contains sexual content, often slash (loving homosexual relationships) and sometimes graphic, I ask that you not read it unless you're of age where you live and don't object to the topic. Fiction Index Page or use the links below.

• Fantasy Shorts

  Note: The following fantasy stories are adult in nature. Nothing graphic, but themes perhaps not suited for children. Those marked [S] include same-sex relationships.

  • That Autumn Afternoon [S] When two boys meet an old man, and learn that he was them
  • At Ilya's Wedding A man meets his fate at his best friend's wedding
  • The Last Corner A haunted, antisocial burglar and a woman of another race meet and discover more than they expected
  • Something... [S] A rather unusual young man finds True, if unconventional, Love, and then has to battle all comers, including love, to keep it
    Warning ... work in progress
    
  • The Morgans True Love, war, death and grief, hope...
    Two new stories added 16 Sep
• 'Star Wars': Made a Legend, the life of Wedge Antilles
  • Look here for the List of SW Fiction (two versions, one [S])
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
  • Look here for the List of Power Rangers Fiction [S]
• Real GhostBusters
  • Look here for the List of Real Ghostbusters Fiction [S]
• Battlestar Galactica
  • Look here for the List of BSG Fiction [S]
• Space 1999
  • Look here for the List of Space 1999 Fiction [S]
• Alias Smith and Jones
  • Look here for the List of Alias Smith and Jones Fiction [S]
• The A Team
  • Look here for the List of The A Team Fiction [S]
• Jurassic Park III
  • Look here for the List of Jurassic Park Fiction [S]