A Sky of One Thousands Stars See the Sky, Look Up Climb the eagle-headed mountain; your comrades wait, laughing and feasting around a head of flame. It whispers of the past, the present and the future. Behind you and your fellows hugs a crescent shape of night darkened silver birch. They glow like eyes …
Walk in the Footsteps of Giants: A Short Drabble from the Stormy Inn Series
I moved over the weekend and have numerous creative projects and challenges on the go. I’m living next to the ocean now and all I can think about is imagery and stories with water involved. Nonetheless, here’s another excerpt from my tales from the Inn of Stormy Nights. Walk in The Footsteps The wind blew …
The Great Writing Debate: Inspired or Chair?
The Great Debate: (or one of them anyway) The people who always say “butt in chair” in order to get your stories written are not wrong. The people who always say “inspiration makes your work shine” in order to write quality stories are not wrong. Both have good points that I feel we often lose …
How to Turn to Childhood for Inspiration
Thoughts on the Future, Looking to the Past The value of childhood lies not in the experiences the child hastily wishes themselves out of but in the years later, as the child stands with eyes toward the future and a grateful heart cast to the past. Long ago, if we pull back the vine of …
When Rivers Flowed on Mars: Drabble 1
To reach the tower it took five hundred steps which wound the mountain in the shape of a cobra, curled under its den of sky. We laughed, we dreamed, we counted stars. We hopped the galaxies and rode the comets, kicking dandelion seeds toward the moon. In the summer the tower rose with the grace …
Clouded Perspectives
A/N: Clouds are amorphous individuals who are about as rare as any of the Wee Folk. They have strong opinions about being captured on camera and yet they are permanently captured in our imagination. As such, the following drabble and upcoming travel post were both inspired much more by the magic of imagination than anything …
Above the Cloud of Mountains
From a long series I’ve been working on for some time that examines the quiet points of life when all we can do is avoid the rush of cars with a quick swerve of the foot. Photo taken up on Middleton Mountain in Coldstream, British Columbia, Canada.
A History of Knowledge: Drabble
People retreated into distant corners and set up literal walls as the Romans had done many millennia prior. Caravans trekked the lands carrying loads of goods and people as they hurried to safety. Wary of each other of other things. Technology had brought much which was fantastic and forbidden to the forefront. Shadows of nameless …
Lightning Strikes
It is a universally unknown fact that weeks don’t pass in seconds, they pass in lightning strikes. Each day is one count and suddenly, by Sunday you’ll realise Monday is only one count, or one day, away from your location of a cliff, with a beach and a few friends. These lightning flashes are filled …
A Road Trip of Dishwasher Settings
Did you know that mayonnaise is 5% milk? Did you know that everyone has a unique tongue print, as they do with fingerprints? Did you know that the northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its eyes? (It uses them to help push food down its throat by retracting them into its head). Did you …