Meredith Harmon
Bio
Mix equal parts anthropologist, biologist, geologist, and artisan, stir and heat in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, sprinkle with a heaping pile of odd life experiences. Half-baked.
Stories (195/0)
- Top Story - July 2023
Coyote and the World
Coyote was thoroughly annoyed. He was banished from the pantheon. Him! Just because he called Odin All-Father the name Zeus one too many times, and muttering “By Jove I think he's got it!” every time Loki got Odin out of another mess of Odin's own making. Maybe rolling his eyes one too many times because all of Loki's solutions involved dressing up Thor as a woman, or Loki turning into a new shape? Coyote already did that trick, and it was to return the sun! Not to keep some fanboy frost giants off their collective ass... and onto Loki's apparently, if Sleipnir was the product. Or Pegasus.
By Meredith Harmon9 months ago in Fiction
Scion
From the earliest time I can remember, I wanted to be from the House of Sapphire. I mean, come on, BLUE, right? Shades of color, all sorts of tints and hues, and the whole huge family gets to either use a polish that brings out an amazing brilliance, or they somehow imbue each gem with a little something that makes them shine all the better.
By Meredith Harmon10 months ago in Fiction
- Top Story - July 2023
Pitch Plu-Perfect
[Dave, this is your exhausted secretary. I transcribed the most comprehensible parts from the texts and voice messages into this transcript. He must have been using voice dictation. Some were just too garbled to pull out anything salvageable – or sane. You owe me! Good luck. -YS]
By Meredith Harmon10 months ago in Humor
Coming to America
I love the smell of skunk. I know, I know, but I am one of those people. I actually had a discussion once with a member of the DuPont family, they of the "better living through chemistry" mindset, asking if that was important, and she slowly reached for her cell phone to call relatives in the perfumery department... I had to break her heart by telling her I'm allergic to alcohol. Thus endeth my illustrious career as a nose that should have been the toast of Europe, insured for millions by Lloyd's of London.
By Meredith Harmon10 months ago in Wander
Alice Cooper Saved My Life
Another true story from the annals of my bizarre life... Alice Cooper saved my life. Not kidding, he really did. So I may have mentioned that if a friend has to move, my husband and I are there with bells on to make sure that said friend is well and truly MOVED. If said friend is in danger, my Fierce Protective Friend Meter ratchets itself up to eleven, and you'd better believe that, come heck, high water, or vagaries of life, you WILL be moved.
By Meredith Harmon10 months ago in Wander
The Apothecary's Shop
Mary stepped out into the garden, and surveyed her coming harvest with satisfaction. The neat rows were filled with all sorts of herbs - lavender, feverfew, lemon balm, sage, rosemary, chamomile, bee balm. Bees buzzed in the drowsy heat, making the flowers nod more than the slight wind that was making the leaves tremble.
By Meredith Harmon10 months ago in History