Why did the 8-foot alligator cross the road?

Officials in West Palm Beach don't know the answer, but this week, when it started sprinting from lawn to lawn in an area a few miles from The West Palm Beach Post office and Donald Trump's Mara Lago resort, they captured it and relocated it to a secluded canal.

Florida is called the Sunshine State because the sun shines almost every day, but it could also be called the Canal state or the Gator state, because it has thousands of drainage canals, some as old as 1800 years, and about 1,300,000 alligators - that's one-point-three million gators!

The search for Bigfoot has captured the interest of thousands of people all around the world, but until recently, no one has ever actually spoken with one of the elusive creatures.  

My friend Knotso Clanky not only met a Bigfoot, but he also had a long conversation with one, and even invited the forest denizen into his home - and that's when things started to go bad, as you'll see below, in the carton Knotso drew about the situation.

 By Bill Russo

When I travel through the 48 states by car, I am always struck by the different accents to be found in this great nation which is 'indivisible' except for the variations in speech.

Going from East to West' via the South, I find 'you guys' becomes "youse guys" which morphs into "y'all" and later to "you'uns" etc.

But the strangest speech of all is in the mid-west. When people hear my Boston accent they say, you must be from 'Mass-a-too-setts'.

"No", I reply. "I am from Mass-achoo-setts - the state that sounds like a sneeze! a-choo!"

The Fifth Floor - based on real people and places inside the Bridgewater...

The video version of The Fifth Floor, by Bill Russo - based on real people and places inside the Bridgewater Triangle. Click pic 2 C on YouTube.

The Second Life of Riley Adair - from Bill Russo's Short Story Theater

From Season 4 of Short Story Theater - an examination of the possibility of a mind that exists below the conscious and even the subconscious mind.  

I Grew Up in Dodge City in 1875, By Bill Russo

Brand New - the Video Version of my short story, "I Grew Up in Dodge City in 1875" - Click the pic to see for free on YouTube!

The Martian Express - A Tale of the Past? The Future? or Both? You decide!

Here is the video version of my short story, The Martian Express.  Is it a tale of the past? The Future? Or, as I suspect, is it both a yarn of days gone by and days to come?