“My, my, my! Isn’t it a wonderful day Raymond?” said Walter as he carefully pulled up his car on the small driveway. Standing up, he brushed away any dirt on his nude suit and wing-tipped Oxfords. Besides Walter, Raymond hummed a small reply. Walter, content, continued on out to the quaint diner slumped in the middle of the paved road. The diner wasn’t much. A small stoop and a door with a rusty metal frame on top was smack dab in its middle. On either side of the door was a row of windows and underneath
Without another word, the Smiling Knight jerked Merrett to his feet and tugged the squire behind him causing the Frey to lose his boot. As the shoe fell to the ground, Alayna saw the hilt of the aforementioned knife peek out of the shift. Acting as swiftly as possible in her bound state, Alayna scooted over to retrieve the weapon amidst the commotion around her. She tucked the knife between her hands and began to saw at the ropes that tied her wrists together. When she felt her bindings go lack,
At Waltersburg, troubles easily dissolved like sugar on the tongue, and Lindsey was able to experience full excitement for the ball. Mary carried out most of the preparation, conferring often with John, and Ron and Lindsey’s walks began to take longer and longer, leaving the elder couple whole hours to chat about what they considered immense progress. And perhaps they were rightly pleased. “I didn’t know you danced,” Lindsey wondered to Ron as they turned about the rose walkways. She’d decided that
He was on his way home when the accident happened. Everyone thought it was because of the rain and in a way, that was true. It had been bucketing down, making it hard to see through the heavy rain drops on the windscreen even with the headlights on. The front end of her red car had crumpled from impact, making the windscreen implode with shattered glass. The front passenger door was torn from it hinges laying several metres away and the front wheels had spun off their axis into the night. There had
Eliza thought that the humidity and heat out on the gallery were bad, but as soon as she walked onto the streets bustling with tourists, she realized just how hot it was. After only a few minutes of walking, her thin, cotton shirt clung to the sweat on her back and a few beads of sweat were making their way down her forehead. "I don't know how you do it," she said, trailing behind John. It seemed that he thrived in the fervorous heat of the south, but then again, he was born and raised in the state
Early the next morning, Jerrit awoke the party and had everyone eat a hasty breakfast. After a telling look at Sarah, he explained to them why he was bandaged and had Petrin help him to tighten the bindings. While doing so, Petrin noticed that Jerrit’s breathing was rapid and shallow. As they finished their meager meal Dirac came into the camp followed by a single horse. “The raiding party is about six hours ahead of us at your human walking speed. If you had more horses, we could quickly overtake
Wine flowed easily for the rest of the evening, as pleasant flushes stained everyone’s cheeks as they talked and dined well into the night. Rhaegar, even, found it within himself to share a somber melody for the group. Alayna can feel tears prick at the the corner of her eyes. She recognized the Prince was a truly talented musician and singer but she wouldn’t say she wasn’t fawning over it. However, Elia and Jon are fully enraptured by the sound of his voice. She found it endearing that people could
Bullying Story Have you ever been bullied before? Well let me tell you a few or more things because I actually have been bullied. I was bullied about my clothes, skin, head shape, and eyebrows. I got bullied because my clothes were “too short”, my skin because of acne, my head shape because it was too big, and my eyebrows because “it wasn’t thick enough’’. It all started when I was in 1st grade, I was at lunch minding my own business and enjoying my lunch, until there were 4th graders who were laughing
Jake Parson’s mother called it the magic hour: the moment when a day passes into evening, when the earth feels suspended before darkness and slumber. In the gold and reddening light, an easy southwest breeze propelled Jake’s thirty-five-foot sailboat through the Beaufort Inlet for the first time. He had been delayed by more than a week. First, a storm had blown him off course, followed by a shift in wind that kept him off shore. He longed to see his brother, Glenn, who was waiting for him in port
The prospect of wrestling rocks out of dirt under the sweltering summer sun versus spending a breezy summer day in the city, would seem insane by most. But a little physical torture in the morning could get Mae a pedicure and the red ankle strap sandals with the stiletto heel she’d had her eye on by late afternoon, made it an easy choice. Dexter turned off the main highway onto a narrow dusty road that went on for miles and miles. Scrawny signs, handwritten on torn cardboard then stapled to dilapidated