Mixed Bag Stories and Poems
Anthony Paul Curtis
Mixed Bag consists of stories and poems; ridiculous, humorous, happy, sad or romantic. Some of them are very short, that is why they are called short stories. Longer stories include Li Na Liu, the adventures of a giant panda and the adventures of Zak, the Kangaroo.
The poems cover a wide range of emotions as poems should do. And they are, in the main, easy to understand.
Included are the Tales of Waterworld; a small lake in which its inhabitants live their fishy existences. Percy Perch is a terrorist, Reginald Roach a poet. Bertie Bass is the ponderous one and Peter Pike suffers from a bad conscience. The only real threat to their lives are the Otherworlders (human beings) who delight in casting their lines and hooks into the water; but there are other dangers that exist in the lake itself and the fish must learn how to live with them.
