Masie and the Treasure Map

Masie and the Treasure Map: One Day Delay

Writing for a cause.Masie's heart sunk when she saw her father return to the waiting area with a long face. "I couldn't book another flight until tomorrow morning." "Wow, really, dad?" Shrugging her father sat next her and gave her a sideways hug, "It happens. They almost never have flights back-to-back like that, but don't… Continue reading Masie and the Treasure Map: One Day Delay

Masie and the Treasure Map, Writing For a Cause

Masie and the Treasure Map: Dad Comes, too!

Dad comes, too "YAY! Dad's coming, too!" She ran out of the office and up the hall. By the time her father walked out into it, she had three suitcases pulled out of it. "Whoa there, Speedy, there's a few things I have to do first." She looked up at him as she held onto… Continue reading Masie and the Treasure Map: Dad Comes, too!

Masie and the Treasure Map, Writing For a Cause

Masie and the Treasure Map (Going to Germany)

This is the next two parts of the story. Part Three The next morning as Masie was getting ready to sit down to breakfast, there was a knock on the front door. She peeked around the corner of the upstairs hall as her mother opened the door. "Mother, I thought you said you had something… Continue reading Masie and the Treasure Map (Going to Germany)

Masie and the Treasure Map, Writing For a Cause

Masie and the Treasure Map

A little background: This is an ongoing project in order to donate money to literacy projects. This is the first two parts of the story. Details are below on how you can participate when the most recent installment is posted on the blog. You can also follow it on my Facebook Page. Part One Masie… Continue reading Masie and the Treasure Map

Poems

Another Day… Another $.50

I am sitting here with my mind reeling, my heart beating, and my soul bleeding, wondering how everything flipped. How did the cops become bad guys, the villains become rectified, and spirituality be set aside?   Why do we disrespect our protectors, Protect our detractors, and let or children defect from decency? Why is fine… Continue reading Another Day… Another $.50

Poems

Screaming in the Dark

Sometimes, just sometimes, don’t you feel like screaming? Don’t you feel like reeling? Letting it all out? Sometimes doesn’t the stress get to you? I mean really get to you? When you thought you figured it out? Don’t you just have those times? Those times when everything goes wrong? Those times you wish to scream… Continue reading Screaming in the Dark

Poems

Don't Pass Them By…

See that soldier sitting there? In the wheelchair in the alley there? He’s the one you pass every day, And shake your head in complete disdain. He once was a soldier in defense of our land, And because of illness, he is a forgotten man. He is not there by laziness or choice. He is… Continue reading Don't Pass Them By…

Cashel
Short Stories

Maiden of the Mist Finale

The ghostly figure of the boy cocked his head to one side in contemplation, “No, I don’t think I do.  They were mean to me as they are you.  You should do something.” “In doing nothing, I am doing something. I am showing them that I am not to be feared. By throwing things and… Continue reading Maiden of the Mist Finale

Short Stories, The Underfoot Clan

The Adventures of the Underfoot Clan: Mission Implausible Part Three

Missed Part one and Part two?  Click on the links to catch up! They each took their snacks and sat in the large lunch room.  Every time Ralphy wanted to say something, the others would shake their heads.  They all knew the problem was now two-fold.  Getting Mama Leone out of the kitchen was the… Continue reading The Adventures of the Underfoot Clan: Mission Implausible Part Three