The scent of brick, horses, manure and just grime fills your nose as you whine softly, waking up. You look around as you try to figure out what is going on. Horse drawn carriages, people in armor, and beast folk around you make you realize you are no longer in Kansas any more. You get up clumsily as you try to figure out how to stand on all four paws... wait...
My name is Caroline Aldercy Shepherd. I'm a thirty-something Australian woman living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I moved to the Confederation of Canada from my native Commonwealth of Australia in April 2009. Life has been a weird mix of ups and downs since then. The great Confederation of Canada is the most xenophobic country on the planet Ea...
Redburn is a small village just outside of London, it's the kind of place that is home to retired folk and people that work in London that make a lot of money live at the weekends. It's also the kind of place where the wives of those people live and do, well not a lot really. You could say they look after their kids but that would in most cases be a lie as w...
In those early days, I had you, the whole kit and caboodle of you. Now, I have nothing but memories of our short fused life, a life shattered too soon. In my youth, I expected a future filled with you and you and you, found much to my chagrin it was not destined to be. Since then, I have loved just as well I hope and pray, but never with the longing, the pas...
It was the kind of cool, crisp morning that you would expect from October. The first frost of the season was just beginning to melt from the grass so that the dog's paws and his sneakers were quiet wet before they'd even walked fifty yards. They'd only just started coming here earlier that week. There were two baseball fields, a boat landing, a small playg...
Linus pushed Moe to get inside. Moe didn't budge. He grabbed Linus by the arm and pulled him into the cabin, slamming shut the door. "Did you see that?" Lexie said. "Our boy is in trouble." "Time for Charlie's Angels to save the day," the dancer said. She and Lexie marched toward the cabin. "Are you coming, Dakota?" "Whsht!" Holly hissed. "Go get some sna...
I had decided to take my weekend stroll in Golden Ears Provincial Park, which was a few hours' drive from my house. I packed my small khaki knapsack with a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich, a few 750ml bottles of water, a package of Kleenex, and my little point and shoot 35mm camera. Oh yes, and I almost forgot to pack the mini first aid kit, but I...
How To Pick the Perfect Pooch. So you want to buy a dog, but you don't know which kind of dog to buy? Well, you've opened up the right story. It's good that you didn't open up a story of romance and intrigue. Yeah, it may have entertained you, but you'd still wonder which dog to buy after you read the story, whereas after reading this story, you'll at least...
I have a thing for the outdoors. I am especially fond of this little woodsy park nearby my home. On this one particular hot and sunny day, a typical day in Florida, I got very, very hot...and I'm not talking temperature wise. I took a little stroll around the woods admiring the scenery. I walked on the little wooden boardwalk by the water and giggled...
for Martin...I still remember I looked out the window at the sky growing dark with storm clouds, and uneasily wondered why my husband wasn't home yet. I love storms, but this one had been called dangerous more than once on the weather forecasts, and the scenes of devastation it had left behind in the areas it had already gone through were frightening. The w...