Posted in Tales, Tales From the Magical Notebook on Apr 29th, 2006 No Comments »
There is something terribly lonely about a playground in the rain. The slides are empty save for a few raindrops. The monkey bars look lost with no one on them. The swings drift lonesome in the wind. Even the sun stays home and the light hangs gray in the the air.
The knight who sat [...]
Posted in Tales, Tales From the Magical Notebook on Apr 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Once upon a time Marjory had a collection. She never showed anyone her collection, but everyone knew she was working on one. She talked about the day she would show her collection to everybody, the day her collection would be just right, but she made sure people knew that day wasn’t yet.
For some reason [...]
Posted in Tales, Tales From the Magical Notebook on Apr 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
They had always told her not to go outside during a storm, but no one had ever satisfactorily explained why. So, naturally, Julian ended up outside during the worst storm of the month.
Since the time she was young her mother had told her that she was outside during a storm she would catch her [...]
Posted in Tales, Tales From the Magical Notebook on Apr 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Celia lived on the ground. She lived in a cute little hut on a cute little patch of ground that had been in the family for years. Specifically it had been in her family for seven years. She lived on it with her family, but they aren’t going to enter this story much so I [...]