Characters: Isabella Walsh: 11 years old; founder of the Butterfly Club, the Tree Climbing Club, the Walshabaskian Spies (a small band of girls to committed to defeating the evils of the Girl Exterminating Club), and, most recently, the Walsh Detective Agency Miss Lucinda Guck: 34. Correctionist. Wears her hair pulled back in a tight bun. Overseer of the Matronly […]
Read more "Dialogue 1"Holli Gibbs Elizabeth lay in her bed, tucked between layers of soft cotton. Her eyes were closed, but her mind was wide awake, brainstorming. After about twenty minutes, her eyes popped open. “Amelia,” she said. “Are you awake yet? Amelia?” Elizabeth threw back her covers and swung her feet around, bringing them down on the […]
Read more "Fairy Tale Chapter 1"blah blah blah blah blah. WordPress is so nonsensical. I could wring it’s scrawny little wordpressy neck. 🙂
Read more "THIS IS A NEW TEST POST"All men desire to show abroad their fame. To win renown and honor for their name. They fight, they lead, they conquer in the fray, and in their minds unnumbered dragons slay. To bear with hardship, pain, or lack of food is to the fire of their minds like wood. But one remains who […]
Read more "An Essay on Women"Ethan Talbert Shadows drifted over the table, flickering on and off with the fire. The spiced cider warmed Alston down to his toes. It was cold outside. Alston looked across the table at his friend. “You don’t know what it’s like,” Alston said. “I may be brand new here too, but I’ve learned about it […]
Read more "Race to Verdue Fountain–part 1"The child’s eyes are staring at the fish swimming ‘round in little endless rings. Each time around the Beta tail will swish: the fish inside is pondering on things. He wonders why he cannot swim at all beyond the fish tank’s curve. He deeply sighs. His little head just plunks into the wall. He thinks […]
Read more "Through a Glass (Very) Darkly"holli gibbs When I have nothing, The treasures of my heart all gone, Crumbled into dust and blown away, The silence screams while endless space Crowds in from every far off place. I grieve the dying light of yesterday, Alone in a world I used to call my own. When I have nothing, The treasures […]
Read more "When I Have Nothing"by Holli Gibbs I didn’t love You from the very start When what I loved the most was my own way, But now I live to give You all my heart. You made a promise—that we would never part, That You would love me always, come what may, But I didn’t love You from the […]
Read more "To Give God all My Heart"by Holli Gibbs Hollow tree, but O was the bark blameless! Laid out evenly, Lined up perfectly, In an unbelievable smoothness. But the leaves didn’t grow and Every time the wind would start, The tree would shiver, knowing How barren its heart. Only God could fill the shrub, making Its true fruits come to […]
Read more "The Tree"Holli Gibbs Take down your flag. The rain is falling. The gentle drops that wash away the past Are falling all around us, falling fast, Eroding all the paths that led before. Take down your flag. The seams are wearing. The weakened threads of a forgotten age Have failed to stop time’s turning page. They […]
Read more "The Sun is Setting"
melenoria 