Mermaid of the Oasis_Down The Winding River_a summer kidnapping_Little Billy and the Bluebird
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Mermaid of the Oasis
Flashing lights danced within the aircraft cabin. The signs of danger swirlwww.onedoor.cced with the air as it conveyed certain death to its passengers. A siren sang in harmony with the screams of those beside Ammon. His best friend yelled into his ear like a muted television. He grabbed his hand and held it tight when he felt his stomach leap as the plane plummeted. He read the lips of his friend, “Ammon, I just wanted to tell you —” as fire protruded from behind his head. The fire swallowed every inch of his face; his green eyes were the last to be seen among the flames.Gasping for air, Ammon awoke from ...
Down The Winding River
If I told someone that I learned one of the most important life lessons through a fever dream, they would not believe me. I mean, would you?A child, around the age of eleven, telling you that they learned about life through a dream. A dream they had on a cold winter night when their forehead burned through a fever. The dream of a winding river. And almost every time, the dream went like this.“What will become of me from now on? After a while, I stopped thinking about that. Nothing changes, in this winding river of dreams, each day and night continues on. Monotony doesn’t bother me.” The silenc...
a summer kidnapping
Recently t’is come to my attention that I have been kidnapped. When I wrote about this and no one cared a long, long time ago I felt disappointed. After all, most of the people I wrote to owed me for this is this or that is that. What can I, am single-footed single eyed pirate, a poet a writer in Bolivia do for such a wide and wild assortment of people? I was and am who I always will be. A personality like now you will know. Let me begin with the summer that I think this began. 1973 I was crying. Why? My parents were yelling and screaming and excited. And? That night an angel, or at least what...
Little Billy and the Bluebird
Little Billy lived in a small village in rural Scotland with his family. Little Billy’s father owned two acres of farmland on which the family cultivated barley, wheat and potatoes. Little Billy’s mother gathered wood, cooked food, washed clothes and cleaned the house each day. Little Billy and his younger sister, Sally, went to school and helped their mother and father.One day, Little Billy’s father fell sick. He called Little Billy to his bedside.“Billy, my boy, I need you to go to town tomorrow. Can you do that?” he said.Little Billy jumped at the idea for he so badly wanted to watch the ci...