When Things Are Not As They Seem
We had been digging with our hands, trying to free our trapped family members from beneath the collapsed building. But, finally, it seemed, help had arrived. We all cheered. I jumped to my feet, despair transformed into hope, as pickup trucks and limos came into view…
The Neighbourhood of Make-Believe
My grandma said I lived in a dreamworld. But it was just a different neighbourhood…
Good Versus Evil
Melting snow dripped from the leaves like tiny ice daggers onto the disgruntled trainee evil witches below. As soon as they were born, these little girls were dispatched to the camp before any chance of feeling love or appreciation of comfort or joy could tarnish them. The spells that they were taught in dank and chilly clearings were bitter with evil: how to cause pain, how to fill hearts with hatred and revenge, and how to cause sorrow through foul wickedness.
The Stone Mirror
There’s no softening of stiff cheeks no smoothing of lines formed over time
Beauty – the MockingOwl Roost
Come play in the Lonely Maple Wood, dance in the Winter Wonderland, dream of of things to come at Love’s Open Door. Within the pages of the MockingOwl Roost issue “Beauty” you’ll find the wonders of nature, humanity, animals, and more, inviting us each in to delight in creation and each other.
July 27, 2021
My love of horses led to my first break as a writer. A story of inspiration.
