A Life Remembered_The Girl with Lightning Eyes_The Daffodil Dilemma_Denny the Sparrow
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A Life Remembered
In the distance I can hear whirring and clanking. I try to open my eyes, but the stark light makes them sting and I immediately close my eyes again. My head is throbbing, and the noise is intruding into my brain like daggers. I can feel myself moving through a brightly lit tunnel, but I cannot work out where I am.The clanking stops and I can feel myself being wheeled on a trolley. My head still hurts too much to open my eyes, so I try to listen intently to what is going on. I concentrate as hard as I can, but my mind is drifting. I can hear small snippets of conversation, including the words, ...
The Girl with Lightning Eyes
She wore a rubber blindfold, melded and sewn into her face. The illegitimate child of the Norse god had eyes reminiscent of her father’s power. Though unlike him, she had never seen the cold and bitter beauty of the North. In fact, she had not seen anything since she was a young child. She had been scooped up by strange men in black garb and tormented daily by evil dressed in white for the past twenty years. She knew not who she was, where she was from, or even her name. The closest thing she knew to the embrace of a family were the cold hugs of rubber walls and the prickly kisses of needles.“...
The Daffodil Dilemma
Author’s Note Just a brief explanation on a minor detail that may confuse some readers - in the UK, Mother’s Day is a movable feast, celebrated on the 4th Sunday in Lent. “Let’s do what I saw on telly, Auntie Marie!” That’s the kind of statement that can be decidedly disconcerting coming from the mouth of a seven year old, especially one like my niece Chloe, who is a sweetheart, of course (though she wouldn’t be a normal seven year old if occasionally other nouns didn’t spring to mind) but has that mixture of a vivid imagination and an urge to imitate that can, on occasion, lead to consequenc...
Denny the Sparrow
Denny the Sparrow Of all the Sparrow’s in his community Denny was the one pushing the limits all the time that kept getting him into trouble with the community and the leaders. The leaders were continually reminding him he must follow the rules for the community to survive. For some reason Denny felt he was not destoned to be like all the other Sparrows. The weather was starting to get colder and the community was preparing to fly south for the winter. Denny thought for a minute and decided he was a year older now, young and strong and pretty smart so he should be able to stay up hear for the...