Michael T. Miyoshi

Self-published author (Amazon), blogger, poet, lyricist. @MichaelTMiyoshi

https://mediocreman.com

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Michael T. Miyoshi

Self-published author (Amazon), blogger, poet, lyricist. @MichaelTMiyoshi

https://mediocreman.com

188

Writings

Followers

Following

No More Looking Back

Michael T. Miyoshi

4 min read

Joey looked back. He knew he shouldn’t. His coaches told him he shouldn’t. But he did. Again. The last 400-meter race he ran, he stumbled. Just a little. But enough to get caught. Enough to lose the top spot on the podium. This time was different. This time, Joey tripped and fell. And fell. And fell. He hit the ground with a thump. He was sweating profusely. He was on the ground, bu...

Drama

Unexpected Truth

Michael T. Miyoshi

2 min read

Bradley knew Emma was lying to him, but he did not know why. “So tell me what she said again.”

Emma sighed. “I already told you. She has no feelings for you. The new hot girl thinks you’re a dweeb.”

“A dweeb?! Me? C’mon. All the girls think I’m hot stuff.” Bradley flexed. He knew his false bravado usually worked to get her to talk.

Emma rolled her eyes, then smacked him hard on the sho...

Romance

Drama

Questions for a Tree

Top 10

Michael T. Miyoshi

1 min read

Four-thousand years or more you’ve lived

I wonder what you have seen.

Thousands of generations of

The creatures that have been.

Did you see the mastodons

Roaming across the plains below?

Did you see the saber cats

Catching their prey in the snow?

And speaking of the white stuff

Did you witness an ice age or two?

Oh if only trees could talk

The questions we could ask you.

But would you even answer...

Her Deep Blue Eyes

Michael T. Miyoshi

4 min read

It is funny looking back. I was a confirmed bachelor. No woman was going to catch me. Not that I was a womanizer or anything. Far from it. I just had no need for women. No need for dating or anything like that. I just liked to be a ski bum in the winter and do water sports in the summer. Oh sure. I loved my job. And the lifestyle it afforded. I could have wined and dined women. But wha...

Drama

Romance

Deadline

Michael T. Miyoshi

2 min read

Oh, your messy desk. Three stacks of papers in front of your three monitors. The small terra cotta pot that holds your pencils is tipped over and the pencils are strewn about. And legos. The kids have been in here again. Or did you bring them in here? You don’t even know. Ugh. You see that coffee mug stain. Will it ever come out of the wood? You know it’s a second-hand desk, but it’s so ...

Drama

He Was Waiting

Michael T. Miyoshi

3 min read

“Who is that?” Jenny shouted above the roaring river.

Her husband, Jesse, paused to look at the silhouette of the man. He just shrugged, never letting go of Jenny’s hand. Then, he looked down in front of his feet and they continued their methodical plodding across the shallow, but treacherous river.

That was the thing Jenny thought. Concentrate on each step, and they just might make it across...

Drama

Action

Rhyme in Time

Michael T. Miyoshi

1 min read

You have just ten minutes to come up with a rhyming poem about creating rhyming poems under a deadline. (You are in charge of timing yourself.)...

Writer’s Rant

Michael T. Miyoshi

1 min read

Your protagonist is a writer who does not like prompts but is compelled to do so for thirty straight days. What is his or her rant?...

The Mole

Michael T. Miyoshi

2 min read

“Yes, Jason. I trust you. Even though we’re meeting in this alley. Even though you have a knife to my throat. I still trust you.”

Jason takes the knife away from my throat. I turn to face him. He drops his hands to his sides. He still has the knife. He is still a stone cold killer. But we’ve worked together for so long. We’ve got a trust that few operatives have. Yes, even spies need t...

Drama

Humour

The End?

Michael T. Miyoshi

2 min read

“Whatcha watchin’, Kurt? Armageddon?”

“Nightly news.”

“Ah c’mon, Kurt. You’re pulling my leg, right? I mean, there must be hundreds of movies with asteroids, comets, or whatever destroying the earth on impact. This show must be one of them. Right?”

Kurt flips through the network channels. Every broadcast is the same. What looks like a still picture of an asteroid in space is on the scr...

Drama