The Mighty Mortimer_The Axe and the Egg_The Mirror in the Dining Room_Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
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The Mighty Mortimer
Mortimer Macklin didn’t think water had ever tasted so good as he slurped from a clear mountain stream below the family campsite. Just as he was about to wipe a hand across his mouth and stand up refreshed, the creek surface glittered with bright colored light. Mortimer fell back onto the creek bank tilting his head up just in time to catch remnants of a shooting star in the dark sky above him. Mortimer hadn’t seen but three shooting stars in all his twelve years but knew this one was different. It looked like it was dragging a bright colorful rainbow leaving blue, green, pink and purple glitt...
The Axe and the Egg
I’m not used to running for my life. I crash through the woods, trying not to trip over my feet in the dark. My breaths come out ragged and my thighs burn with exhaustion. Slung over one shoulder is a bag containing all that remains of my possessions. Tucked safely under my arm is a golden Faberge egg, ridiculous in its opulence and heavy with encrusted jewels. This egg is my ticket to freedom, to a new life. Barking dogs echo through the woodland behind me, all around me. I can’t tell how far away they are, but it isn’t far enough. I need to get away, fast. I lunge over a rotting stump and na...
The Mirror in the Dining Room
Jason hardly ever set foot in the dining room. Clarence wasn’t sure he’d ever seen him eat there, not in the two years and change since they’d realized their wartime dream and moved up here. That had always been just fine bwww.onedoor.ccy Clarence, and never more so than today. Second shift had started well over an hour ago by the time Clarence arrived in the dining room with his soup and bread, and spotted those two out behind the shed. Had Jason called in sick again? Or had the fool just not noticed the time?Clarence worked the first shift at the warehouse down in the valley, because it gave him the after...
Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Kennedy swiped right and matched with a handsome twenty-six-year-old named Cody. The tags on his dating profile claimed he worked out, looked for a relationship, had no kids but wanted them someday. He didn’t smoke, earned a college education, and even shared her political and spiritual affiliations. What’s more was that he lived five miles away in the next town over from her. He had to be the most local match she found so far who met enough of her personal criteria as well!Kennedy didn’t hesitate to answer the dating app’s prompt encouraging her to start a chat, but she stared into the blank ...