“It was the darndest thing, I tell you.” Fred scraped his chair back from the oak table, got up and walked over to the window. “I been camping and hiking hundreds of times, and I ain’t never seen nothin’ like that.” He bent in front of it to catch the warm breeze that fluttered the [...]
The written word, proper grammar and language usage are the tools of a writer. We bloggers and writers constantly work on perfecting our language skills to achieve maximum effect in our writing-whatever the genre. A field where these skills are essential as well may not have occurred to you if you haven’t dabbled in online [...]
I am involved in a wonderful project with eight other Second Wind authors. Rubicon Ranch is an ongoing collaborative novel that we are writing online. It is the story of people whose lives have been changed when a little girl’s body was found in the wilderness near the desert community of Rubicon Ranch. Was her [...]
Level Y The Carriveaua analogy for a ‘needle in a haystack’ was an ‘ubvua pin beneath a Teagan Loz Fighter parts pile’, and whatever culture that a person hailed from, the puzzlement concerning the whereabouts of the intruder would have been shared by all. Tedium and powerlessness grated against Burdlit’s patience as only inevitability could [...]
Chapter One – The Encounter Mungai lived all alone in the jungle. He hadn’t always lived alone but he was such a dreadful creature at times that those who once cared for him decided he should leave and never return. He was considered ‘bestia non grata’ in most of the places he’d ever [...]
“Mamma?” “Yes baby” “We got something to eat Mamma?” “Don’t think so”. “I am hungry”. “Don’t keep on so I am tired” “But Mamma I need some food” She reached for her purse looking in each compartment. “Here, go get some chicken and fries”. “Thanks Mamma”. The boy put on his grubby parka, it was [...]
“He’s evil, there’s no other word to describe him.” Mike Wallace smiled, as he recalled his friend’s words. He found consolation in the fact the Frank O Connor, his best friend, had always been one for overstatement and while his flair for the dramatic bode well for him in his chosen field of law, it [...]
So far away from skyscrapers and from other kinds of modern civilization, there existed a quite vast land that held some of the most captivating beauties that Earth ever had. This area had been witnessing wonderful sunrises and sunsets that everybody could not but behold every second of them, as if they were the last [...]
It was fall and I loved coming to the Catskill Mountains of New York on my vacations before returning to College in Texas. The country was beautiful. I would walk the mountain trails and find one beautiful picture after another to take as I hiked this land. I was staying in a little town south [...]
NOTE: Here’s the beginning of a fun fanciful story of Christmas magic for children of all ages from 5 to 95. “Can two lowly fishermen save the Queen, her daughters and Christmas?” * Caryn’s Magic Towne – Chapter One * A small village in a remote corner of Caryn’s imagination where, once a year, the [...]
