Category: Writing
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A Bubble Vacation

Sometimes it’s necessary to escape for a brief time into your own bubble and this unique bubble fantasy is located in a casual lake community with spectacular sunrises and sunsets. The stress-free bubble zone is steeped in solitude and the off the grid living allows you to spend your days floating in a news-free zone…
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I Promised Myself I Would Not Cry…

I promised myself I would not cry when this wonderful weather spell ended and I’m going to hold myself to that promise. We managed to break two records this week when we reached 67 degrees twice and I do not recall ever seeing our local lakes flowing with water and people already in their yards working…
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Fog – Fifty Word Story

The gloomy fog of disinterest that shadowed her waking hours escalated into a running nightmare of despair once asleep. A barbed wire fence blocked every escape and the endless violent swirl of branches drawing blood from her arms offered the only proof in her daily existence that she was alive.
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A Winter’s Day At The Park

The summer laughter and squeal of children swimming in the lake has been replaced by the sound of the whipping westerly wind. The wind carries the echo of the distant swans warning one another of their presence and the whistling sound of their wings as they heed that warning and take flight between sheets of…
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Numb – 50 Word Story

She stood braced against the piercing wind as each biting blast stung the tears streaming down her frozen cheeks. Engulfed in frigid desolation, she tried to remember the happy days spent on their bench beneath the now barren tree, but only bleak despair greeted her spiritless eyes and numb soul.




