Eytea_Gargoyle Garden_Unexpected Visitors_Late Departure
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Eytea
As a child, when I first glimpsed the steeply pitched roof winking with pointed-arched windows, the love affair blossomed. At this moment, standing under the one-story porch facing the front door adorned with decorative crown and arches, my palms itched in anticipation. I was returning to Eytea, my family manor house, waiting in patience for my return. Bradshaw opened the door on silent hinges, still as a statue, a familiar, albeit older, member of the Eytea staff. "Welcome to your home, Madam. My condolences at the loss of your father and mother.""Thank you, Bradshaw. She looks wonderfully ag...
Gargoyle Garden
As Marci very slowly opened the wrought-iron gate she thought about a promise that she had made to herself a long time ago—never, ever, to pwww.onedoor.ccass through the gate to Mrs. Stone’s private garden. It would be too painful.Max Able and Danny Boyle were about as adventurous as boys could be. If there was something that they were told not to do, they did it. Today all three friends were here-- Marci, who wanted to do everything boys did; Max, who wanted to prove to her once and for all that she was ‘just a girl’; and Danny, who – although he felt that girls were ‘too soft’ to hang out with the guys in...
Unexpected Visitors
Oliver had been alone for a very long time.Memory was not an ally in his old age, but he knew it had been a good number of years since he had lived with others; his family had long since moved on to greener pastures, and they had left him alone in this big house with nothing but spiders for company.Even Oliver’s own wife had left eventually, her heart less stubborn than Oliver’s. She couldn’t take the emptiness of the big house once all her beloved children and grandchildren had gone away for good, and so left to follow them.And so, Oliver had been alone for a very long time.This was why, when...
Late Departure
The ground was getting harder and colder. “We need to start heading out.” Mom nagged at my dad. “Let’s just wait awhile” dad commented back before heading out before he got some smarts words from mom. Our neighbors, the Robbins had left a few months ago and we were the few idiots staying behind. They complained about leaving but they wanted to leave early to get good housing. The worms weren’t coming out as often anymore and the air was getting colder. “There’s more food for us since their gone,” dad would say when the robins left.“Hey mom, I’m going out to fly for a while,” “alright, make sur...