Day: May 9, 2026

I was sound asleep until in a dream
I saw a spider hanging from a spider
thread in front of my face.

It looked so real that I thought it
wasn’t a dream and woke up
ready to bat it away from my face.

And I wondered why me, why did
that goddamn spider have to hassle
me in that dream?

I looked up meanings of spiders in
dreams, but didn’t find any that
applied to me.

Maybe the meaning was it was
just a goddamn spider that
visited me in a lousy dream.

Bob Boyd

When he met her at a high school dance,
he fell in love with her immediately.

She had an ethereal beauty unlike any
other beautiful girl he’d ever seen.

After a dance, they went outside, and
she said see the full moon?

That is my home, and one day I’ll
be going back there.

He thought she was kidding and
didn’t pay attention to her joke.

But the next full moon when they
were walking alone in a park,

She said look my home, the full
moon, and she vanished.

And he swore for a moment he saw
her face replace the man in the moon.

He never saw her again after that,
and nobody in his city,

not even the police, knew anything about
who she was or where she came from.

Bob Boyd

Drew’s friends told him Bree was
out of his league.

He came from a poor family;
she came from a rich family.

They met in their senior year
in high school and fell in love.

Bree told Drew she didn’t care
that he came from a poor family.

She also said don’t listen to your
friends; you’re in my league.

Three months later Drew and Bree
knew they were soulmates,

and they vowed to get married
after they graduated.

But Bree’s father objected
to their getting married.

He wasn’t going to let his daughter
marry a loser from a poor family.

A few weeks after he learned
about their marriage plans,

mysteriously Drew went missing
and was never found.

Bob Boyd

Lily always like to camp alone;
it was an independence thing
to show she could do it.

She learned all about camping
from YouTube videos
and got quite good at it.

After she’d been camping for
there years, she decided to
try stealth camping.

She chose her stealth camp
location in a cemetery
on a full moon night.

She carried her gear through
the open gates and camped
in the middle of the cemetery.

Her plan was to leave right
before the light of dawn
exposed her tent.

But when the sun came up
her tent still stood without
her inside it.

Her purse and a change of
clothes where found folded
neatly inside her tent.

The police did many searches
for Lily, but they never
found her.

They even used search and
rescue dogs to try to
track her.

The dogs couldn’t get a
scent, and there were no
clues as to where she went.

It was as if Lily had
disappeared out of this world
on that full moon night.

That was ten years ago
and Lily’s whereabouts still
remains an unsolved mystery.

Bob Boyd