The Office_Suffer The Child_President Tree_The Longest Day Of The Year
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The Office
The Office Nellie watched; from between the slats of the bin where she was hiding, as her aunt left with the killer. She waited a full minute before she left the bin. This was mainly due to the concern she had about the man seeing her emerge from her hiding place. She had been going about her business; helping her aunt close up the shoppe; then the knock on the door, followed by her aunt using her childhood signal for danger, had chilled her to the bone. Nellie knew her aunt to be one of the most stable and reasonable people in her life. If the shoppe keeper felt that there was danger; then Ne...
Suffer The Child
Come away O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.- W.B.YeatsA small figure separated from the tree line, taking its form directly from the mist which shrouded the mountain bald. A young girl to any who witnessed, though most likely a trick of the light on the morning mist, drifted to the edge of the rocky cliff-face. The sun poked up enough to take away the gloom in the west end of valley below. Barefooted and clad only in a simple linen shift, a tangled mop of pale red curls playing along her w...
President Tree
Disclaimer: Facts provided throughout this literary journal may or may not be true. Do not use to reference any relevant information regarding that of the beloved George Washington. Please enjoy!Saturday February 22, 1738 Garnets and looms do not cease to amaze me, yet, for reasons I cannot explain, my father’s cherry tree is where I write this. My sister Betty, my brothers and I have named him Robbie. The shade of Robbie’s leaves and ants along his rough bark delight me with the simple wonders that can never be explained. I had to contest physically with Samuel for the spot underneath the tre...
The Longest Day Of The Year
It was on the news that morning as she brushed her teeth in the bathroom. June 21st. The day of the summer solstice. She could hear the reporters on the tv chattering earnestly about the longest day of the year, the day when the sun decides to take the long route through the sky and reaches the highest point, somehow resulting in longer hours of daylight than usual.As she rinsed her toothbrush, she remembered her aunt, a woman who never got along with her mother even though they were www.onedoor.ccsisters. Her aunt had led her out of their mother’s womb. They shared a face, although her mother’s face was a ...