Frost bitten needles litter the hard ground surrounding white washed rock gardens. To the east, a dawning sun bathes the hills in purple, peering through the veil of smoke from nearby fires. All is silent, but for the shuffle of cold feet across weathered floorboards. The clink of manacles echoing off the barren walls of […]
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Damp sand from a misty sea foam squishes between my toes. I roll my fingers through the gaps in my toes and grip onto the soles of my feet. The warm crackle of the fire roasts my face and any exposed skin I have. Behind the wall of warmth, the glow of the flames […]
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I offer to you, in all its blazing glory, a story from a third grade version of me. The assignment in my third grade class was to produce a scary Halloween story, and so here is mine. Beware the Haunted Underwear! Happy Halloween everyone!
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The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde My rating: 5 of 5 stars Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall… Humpty Dumpty had a great fall… But was it an accident? Suicide? Or was it murder? Jasper Fforde takes us into the extraordinary town of Reading where Nursery Crimes are prevalent, but irrelevant to the upper bosses […]
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Twelve faces urge me to make a change. A mother’s tears, my father’s letter. Brave children who love me with devotion. They’re right and I know it, but I scowl in defiance. I have control or at least I used to. Now it seems the control controls me. A barrier is breaking. My wife, so […]
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