The Eagle's Nest
posted 4 months ago, updated 3 days later | 7 comments
Quite a few years ago I went on one of my many outdoor adventures to a place I'd been before with a friend I worked with. He was an outdoorsman too. I knew he was into wild adventures, includeing things I'd never really cared to try, such as rapel...
Fatherly Love
posted 5 months ago, updated 40 minutes later | 4 comments
"Well, call the National Geographic, because I just found the missing link!" The teenager on the stool at the ice cream counter called out as a hulking young man with long hair and scruffy clothes walked in to the small town cafe.
"I see the clow...
"I see the clow...
A Heart Without Forgiveness
posted 5 months ago, updated about 7 hours later | 6 comments
She really hated her sister. couldn't stand the very thought of her. As a matter of fact if she did think of her, her hands began to tremble with rage and she would find that she actually began to get a little dizzy after a bit from involuntarily ...
The Mom Shaped Hole In The Heart
posted 5 months ago, updated 3 days later | 9 comments
"Do you miss your Mom sometimes?" He asked quietly as they walked together in the park. She hadn't brought the subject up. in fact she never talked about her Mom, which, even under the circumstances didn't seem quite natural. He knew it had been a...
One Order of Love, Rare
posted 5 months ago, updated 18 minutes later | 4 comments
"NOT SO FAST BUSTER!!" The skinny little man who'd just pulled on an expensive looking raincoat visibly cringed and stooped down a bit as he stopped in his tracks. He had just finished his meal and was trying to slip out without drawing attention ...
Brother and Sister
posted 5 months ago, updated about 11 hours later | 5 comments
"You'll get in trouble!"said the little girl. "No I WON'T!!" said her little brother, chin stuck out in defiance as he was climbing up on the chair against the kitchen counter. ""I'LL TELL!!!" she said, getting angry as she pulled at her brother's...
Benney
posted 5 months ago, updated 1 day later | 6 comments
"Another one?" her Mother said The little combination store/diner/gas station was also the main social center in Agastown, a tiny town like a thousand others like it in out of the way places around the Southern United States. It got it's name from...
An Encounter In The Park
posted 5 months ago, updated about 4 hours later | 4 comments
The old man was sitting in the park feeding birds from a paper bag. It was Sunday. Like most days of the week when weather permited he was at the park, feeding the birds, or talking to whoever would listen. That wasn't many people anymore. His wif...
The Search For Significance
posted 6 months ago | 4 comments
I look through the window of the office where I sit typing this at the dark sky realizing that it won't be long before the morning light will start to filter through the branches of the tree outside my window where the squirrels will begin their d...
