Big Snow Sixteen_The Lilac Girl_A Lesson From Tiamat_The Ninth Life
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Big Snow Sixteen
Where’s my red book bag?” I yell from upstairs. “How would I know, Leah? Find it yourself”, my dad yells back. Very flustered, I start to search the house looking for the bag. I end up finding it after twenty minutes. “Thank goodness”, I mutter to myself. It’s the first snowfall of the year, and my best friend and I made a pact. The very first snowfall that happened after we got our licenses would be the year we go on the hike. Not some boring old twenty-minute hike through the forest but a three-hour hike up one of the biggest mountains in Canada. It is calling for twenty-three centimeters of...
The Lilac Girl
Every day she walked through her orchard to listen to the stories told by the trees. It was a gift she was born with. With a soft touch of her hand, she could hear the countless knowledge the trees held just beneath their bark. In their infinite rings of wood, adventurous stories rolled before her eyes like the waves of the sea. On days like today, the trees were especially ready to share. The sky was only filled with a few clouds, the air was warm with shimmering sunshine, and a soft breeze danced through the leaves. Today the girl wore her favorite outfit. She was dressed in short jean shor...
A Lesson From Tiamat
Zyphon heard a rustling in the bushes and opened his nostrils, a capybara, not his favorite meal but he had to eat something before daybreak so he could get back to his hoard. Dragons don’t give off a scent that other animals recognise so the giant rodent just continued munching on leaves. Nowadays Zyphon preferred twww.onedoor.cco save his fire. A quick pounce with his claws and teeth would work just as well. While he spent most of his time perfectly still he could move fast when he wanted. He leapt forward, pinned the animal down with his claw, It squealed. He killed it with one quick bite to ...
The Ninth Life
The two black limousines pulled up outside the singular house. She had hired two, because that was the way it was done. That was the way it had always been done, and so she did it that way. She made the arrangements and she gave her instructions, so there was not a batting of one eyelid and no eyebrow arose as she made her dignified way out of the house and climbed into the second of the two cars. She sat rigidly as the two dark cars awaited their cue. There was no movement from her as the cars joined the hearse in a procession to the church. She sat with her ghosts and they shared a companion...