Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge Day 3 — Skeleton

image link Part 3 Skeleton Six years had gone by. Jean left for Egypt after high school to study paleontology and Marty left to study forensic physiology in Mexico. They may have parted physically, but their friendship was still very much alive via Zoom, text, and other various technologies. Although their cave hangout was in…

POPO2022 day 3 — trees

once upon a time they may have footed about but now they stand, still once upon a time they walked tall, leaves shimmering happy, green nomads they footed about ’til every place was seen, their kingdom surveyed but now they stand, still digging deep with mirrored roots, our friendly neighbors

Tourmaline’s 2022 Halloween Challenge — Day 2 Bats

image link Part 2 Marty and Jean decided to play hooky from school that late autumn early afternoon. Their summer hangout at the lake was windy and chilly, and so they decided to walk down into the gulch for shelter. Normally hidden by trees’ leaves, as they rounded a boulder on the path, they saw…

POPO2022 day 2 — libra

fragrant tug of war where victory and defeat eternal stalemates fragrant tug of war entwined with thorned promises lost in the jungle victory, defeat e’er poised on a pointed tip joy, despair wobbles eternal stalemates given no choice but to play bittersweet torment

Doodads — Procrastination Overcome!

Some of you may remember that I bought 10 witch hazel shrubs in the spring and that instead of planting them in the ground I put them in gallon containers.  There they remained, flourishing, growing larger, despite fighting off gypsy moth caterpillars and various other nibbling critters.  It was cold and rainy all week, but…

Tourmaline’s Halloween Challenge Day 1 – Monster

This is my first year participating in this challenge and I’m excited to give it a try. I have no idea how my experiment will work out but I’m going to try to write one long Halloween story for the challenge, one part per day that will include the day’s word. Part 1 If you…