Tag: Tales
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Siren’s Wail
An enchantingly eerie sound has been with me all day long, Carried by the wind, it’s like a spooky siren song. A wail…? A shriek…? A hum…? A moan…? Yes and no in random measure… Like… feeling pangs of sudden fear mixed in… with extreme pleasure. The voice,…
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Mystic Springs
Emeralda looked out through the bay window to the road outside. A rather well kept street on the whole, she thought, looking across the road to the houses opposite. Number one had the tree in the garden, and, on the branch that reached out across the road, she could see Tuppence, one of number three’s…
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The one that got away
The dark. The cool. The shade. It’s late. I’m alone. Footsteps ahead.I hide. Crouching silently. Waiting patiently.Twigs crack. Birds squawk. Eyes narrow.I watch. I stare.It’s now. Or never.I stretch. I pounce. I reach. I flex. I grab.I miss.Next time. I’ll feed.I’m hungry.
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… fancy a writing challenge?
OK, first of all, this post has nothing to do with yesterday’s post at all. The title seemed to carry on well with it, so I thought why not. And the post yesterday was, in a roundabout way, to do with connections. So, this post is kind of connected to yesterday’s post by that virtue.…
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▲○±Ð⌂ ƒØ § ∟µ ® II
It’s taken over six months, but the biggest and the best ▲○±Ð⌂ ƒØ § ∟µ ® franchise of all time is now open for business. Visitors from Earth are queuing to leave the planet to experience the best, most relaxing, and most scenic wait in a fast food queue ever. Not that ▲○±Ð⌂ ƒØ §…