I decided to explore a new part of the city on my daily walk. It took me a while to get out of the areas I had thoroughly explored, but eventually I found myself in a new neighborhood. There were new shops, new gardens in the tiny front yards, new weeds. I always loved exploring somewhere I hadn't been before. I passed a newsstand, where a science magazine...
My family has always purchased a new tree for trimming from the Optimist Tree lot each year. We had never gone in for the artificial look. Since this would be my first Christmas tree I went to the local lot and picked one out. As I was trying to unload it my neighbor,Jack, came over to help. We managed to get it in the house with out too much of a mess. Jack...
Hello and welcome to my readers. Thanks for your votes and comments on my previous stories. This tale of love and dedication is my entry in the Earth Day Story contest. I hope you enjoy it and the other contestants stories as well. Have a great Earth Day. ---------------------------------------- Brooke couldn't believe what she was reading. Ivy University...
Chapter Two. The Picnic. On the weekend before Your return, You had written an email to Your boy containing very mysterious and interesting instructions: "I have a task for you, kgotso. I will be returning to you next weekend. Tomorrow morning, you are to go for a walk in the woods behind the house. You may bring our dog with you for company. I enjoy seein...
Coronation Day Liliana gulped the final mouthful of water from the cup in her hand and swallowed. As soon as she did, an attendant appeared with a water jug and refilled it. She intended to drink as much as she could bear, for today was her coronation day. The Rites of Ascension stretched back nearly 1000 years, to the times of the first empress Helena. Alt...
"How long must we endure this damnable forest?" The complaint came, not surprisingly, from Fenrohir. He had long grown weary of the dark, oppressive canopy which seemed to close more tightly about him with each step. Strange vines hung here and there over the path; the more bothersome of these he slashed at with his short knife. His eyes darted all about hi...
After nearly an hour of packing I was finally ready to go. I sat in my chair, relaxing for a moment as I watched her sleep. The heat from the coffee warming my hands and throat, as I slowly sipped it. I was up earlier than normal, as I had planned a day for us. During last night's required journal reading I had learned she still had an unfulfilled fantasy....
Jordan was on her knees in her garden, her hands buried in the good, clean, black earth. She could feel the moist dirt oozing between her fingers as she worked it, making small holes for the seeds she was about to plant. The sensual feeling of the gooey mud, squeezing out between her fingers, so tactile and so pleasant, was one of Jordan's favorite sensati...
The parking lot looked fairly full when they pulled in for the outdoor concert in the park. They drove around the parking lot for several minutes while looking for a space, finally finding a remote spot under a tree. He parked the car, and turned to her after shutting it off. "We'll have to walk a little way." He said. "That's ok." She smiled at him. "Yo...
"This is not what she planned," Thomas muttered to himself. He was sitting on a chaise on a patio, high on a hillside, on a Caribbean island, alone. The patio was beautiful, a huge tree draped in vines loomed over him washing every bit of the patio in deep shade. The hillside below was covered in trees and the tops of those trees combined with the underside...