CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Mac k 'n' Me: The Transporter's Favour is Book 4 in the Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey series. Mack 'n' Me: The Wolves of Alpha 9 is Book 5. According to Transporter's , Wolves was supposed to be released in January 2019, something it was on track to do, until my world slid sideways and then got busy in June 2018... ...which was when I went in to have a skin lesion checked - and then removed. It turned out to be precancerous, with me receiving that news on the same day my mum told me she'd been diagnosed with terminal cancer and wasn' t expected to see Christmas. That was pretty devastating. A week later, the doctor called and told me they hadn't removed the lesion properly and would have to reopen the nearly healed wound. Fantastic... especially when the second incision almost healed only to reopen a couple of hours after the stitches were taken out. Not so great. I followed that with a week of the flu and then gave myself a case of Tenn...

This week’s verse moves from  a science fiction verse about grollups to a fantasy verse about mermaids. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Best to Shun the Mermaid's Tail Far below where the tall ships sail, in the mermaid deep where the fish don’t sleep, beware the hungry souls that wail. If you see a mermaid’s tail, if you that wonder seek to keep, far below where the tall ships sail. Condemned, will all your efforts fail, and no profit will you reap, beware the hungry souls that wail. Do not seek the mermaid’s tail. Do not seek the treasures deep, far below where the tall ships sail. If you do your soul will ail at each tidal ebb and neap. Beware the hungry souls that wail. Better to leave both sea and sail, bette...