The Dun-Gym
No one could hear the screams... Chapter 3 in a series, beginning here. If C.E. Budd School was a castle, the gym was the dungeon. Sunk below ground level, it was cold and dark and filled with various...
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A dragon who is at all polite Finds table manners a delight. He washes up before he eats, And waits for others to take their seats. It is evident he knows the rule Of using a napkin to catch the...
View ArticleA View of Eternity
It was the kind of October day that lulls a person into complacency. The warm Indian summer sun betrayed any sense that winter was coming. It could be warm like this forever. The sun on the...
View ArticleSorrow and the Beautiful Love
The clouds, heavy with sorrow, bent over the sky, deep and gray and so full of tears they could not cry. It seemed the weight of their anguish would crush the earth, but the weeping would not come....
View ArticleThe Contingency Plan
When I was ten, my dad decided it was time to move away from the suburbs. He loaded up the contents of our house and drove down State Route 97, right into the middle of the Mohican State Forest. The...
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