Stop for a minute and just look around. Look at all the amazing colors you’ve found.
Different
The Hunter
Queen Gertie, cunning and knowing both her kingdom and children better than Humphrey, found the best hunter. The hunter was given gold and the ransom note, which presented three challenges. The hunter accepted.
Brigandine
With the right one, she can be an empress in the boardroom or the bedroom
Ding, Dong, Ditch
Quick glances on sleepy morning elevator rides were not enough. She was beautiful – but he didn’t know her name. 24-C, that’s what he called her. He knew because he was 27-C, the awkward artist who had no idea how to approach his beautiful neighbor.
Seventeen Steps
1863 - Fredericksburg, Virginia, snow blanketed the town with muffled silence that belied the atrocities all around. From a ramshackle one-story house could be traced an unmistakable pattern. Through snow as deep as a man’s knee, there were two uneven footprints, angled to the left the mark of a cane, and to the right a... Continue Reading →
The Carousel of Life
Jim walked around slowly. No one noticed him. It seemed as if the older he got, the more he went unseen. He recalled the first time he brought her here. They were seventeen – he had wanted to surprise her. “A carousel?” she asked, with the haughtiness of adulthood. “Aren’t we a little old for... Continue Reading →
Ironsides
A tenacious beautiful vine will grow in unlikely places, as happened on a ramshackle building in the back of “Ironsides.” The sun, struggling at times through the cascading metal towers, encouraged delicate trumpet blooms to erupt in fiery hues - beauty, out of place in a kingdom reigned by rust and discarded treasures.
Shannon McCauley - Author 