• A Home Bird

    Eating raw fish didn’t sound like a good idea. “It’s a delicacy in Japan,” didn’t seem to make it any more appetizing. Raw fish is raw fish, delicacy or not. virusxax Welcome to my world. You will be greeted by the unexpected here and your mind will be challenged and expanded in ways that you…

  • Right Off the Bat

    Was it a whisper or was it the wind? He wasn’t quite sure. He thought he heard a voice but at this moment all he could hear was the wind rustling the leaves of the trees all around him. He stopped and listened more intently to see if he could hear the voice again. Nothing…

  • Up In Arms

    Should he write it down? That was the question running through his mind. He couldn’t believe what had just happened and he knew nobody else would believe him as well. Even if he documented what had happened by writing it down, he still didn’t believe anyone would still believe it. So the question remained. Was…

  • Swinging For the Fences

    Her hand was balled into a fist with her keys protruding out from between her fingers. This was the weapon her father had shown her how to make when she walked alone to her car after work. She wished that she had something a little more potent than keys between her fingers. It would have…

  • My Cup of Tea

    Colors bounced around in her head. They mixed and threaded themselves together. Even colors that had no business being together. They were all one, yet distinctly separate at the same time. How was she going to explain this to the others? grassxax There was a time when he would have embraced the change that was…

  • Mountain Out of a Molehill

    The blinking light caught her attention. She thought about it a bit and couldn’t remember ever noticing it before. That was strange since it was obvious the flashing light had been there for years. Now she wondered how she missed it for that amount of time and what other things in her small town she…

  • Needle In a Haystack

    It was a good idea. At least, they all thought it was a good idea at the time. Hindsight would reveal that in reality, it was an unbelievably terrible idea, but it would take another week for them to understand that. Right now, at this very moment. they all agreed that it was the perfect…

  • Elephant in the Room

    What was beyond the bend in the stream was unknown. Both were curious, but only one was brave enough to want to explore. That was the problem. There was always one that let fear rule her life. deviationxax She tried to explain that love wasn’t like pie. There wasn’t a set number of slices to…

  • Son of a Gun

    She was infatuated with color. She didn’t have a favorite color per se, but she did have a fondness for teals and sea greens. You could see it in the clothes she wore that color was an important part of her overall style. She took great pride that color flowed from her and that color…

  • Beating Around the Bush

    With six children in tow, Catherine raced to the airport departing gate. This wasn’t an easy task as the children had other priorities than to get to the gate. She knew that she was tight on time and the frustration came out as she yelled at the kids to keep up. They continued to test…