Surprising Back Story Surprising Back Story is the topic for this months writer;s club. I chose to write a true story rather than a fictional character although I took a lot of shall we say creative liberties. This even did happen over 30 years ago. While the gist and some of the details are still fresh in my mind, I…
The man pushed the button next to the door and smiled at Zara. There was nothing to show it was an elevator. Zara had watched Vids of them, but had never seen one and definitely never been in one.
A Brief Run Down On How It All Began It started with the commercials in the early 21st . “Get your DNA tested and we can tell what part of the world your ancestry comes from!” That was fun. The Commercials were fun. People were discovering who they were. Even those who had already done the research on their family…
Tessa closed the door after the last of the children left the Craft Store. She loved the little tykes, but they were tiring. Not having children of her own, she loved holding the craft classes that were popular with the little ones. Today they made Christmas trees out of their hand prints in plaster. They painted them then wrapped them…
“But Mr. Patisserie even your name means pastries!” “I don’t care if my name means schmuck we are not going to make cookies and donuts and foo foo things. This is a bakery! We bake breads and sometimes cake. Maybe in the big city they do things crazy but here we make bread. That’s it! Now make some bread!”…
There was much excitement in the Donnell Family. Finally after so many years of scrimping and saving, Mr. and Mrs. Donnell had saved enough money to take all of the family, all 8 of them, on vacation Previously only the child closest to their 16th had been sent on vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Donnell thought that since the oldest would…
I own a book store. Well, I used to anyway. That was before. Now I own a rare book store. It was a miracle that I, myself, haven’t been seized and burned like so many of my books. That might still be coming someday. I remember a time, when one could easily walk into a store and purchase a book…
This is a story is getting the “T” treatment. It was originally told by the Grimms’ Kinder und Hausmarchen which translates as Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales. We know them as Fairy tales. A note about this story: This was originally written as the witch being an old Fairy. The Victorian era gave us the ethereal fairy that is eternally…
They had walked to the point of exhaustion every day and still it took Annie and Arthur three days to get through the fire ravaged forest. They had made camp just outside of the trees in a meadow that somehow had been spared from the raging fire. Her bones ached and her throat felt as if too had been scorched…