Seth scooped up the exhausted dog and headed back to the car, ending the visit to the park. Both dog and man were rident, with broad smiles on their faces.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Clement
The Prince of the island is generous and clement. Any convicted criminal in his jurisdiction can appeal their sentence after six months. If jailors can't vouch good behavior and the lawbreaker appears regretful, the Prince will pardon them.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Environs
Sean John is the only man who can dive so deep into the waters unprotected with a handful of feed and emerge without a scratch. He won't hesitate to tell you that below the ocean surface, in the sharks' environs, is perhaps the only place he truly feels at home.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Blithesome
Harry was probably Sean John's favorite shark, if really once could be pointed out. Just like a parent with more than one child, he'd never admit it, expect to Harry alone. This was the most blithesome shark he'd encountered - always a broad smile all across his gullet, always wanting to play. Sean John tried showing others what a shark smile, grin, and frown look like, but it seems that he alone has that perception.
Blithesome
Harry was probably Sean John's favorite shark, if really once could be pointed out. Just like a parent with more than one child, he'd never admit it, expect to Harry alone. This was the most blithesome shark he'd encountered - always a broad smile all across his gullet, always wanting to play. Sean John tried showing others what a shark smile, grin, and frown look like, but it seems that he alone has that perception.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Peckish
The training session was only halfway through, and already I was starting to feel a bit peckish. Before the closing talk, I was sure to be famished.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Garboil
As soon as the flag dropped, the contestants bolted out of the the starting line. They dived and launched, landed and missed. They fumbled and wiggled, zipped and zagged. The field was a garboil of darting bodies. The Easter egg hunt was a success.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Droke
On the third day of their journey, the group's feet were starting ache, their bodies' soreness reaching an unbearable point. Morale was low. When they encountered a droke, they nearly quit. They could see across the long, descending slope into the bare valley below.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Epithalamion
It's damned fortunate that our lovely old Uncle Terry just so happens to be one of the top literary practitioners in the country. Maybe it was just the fifth whiskey sneaking up on me, or maybe just the intoxicating atmosphere of an older brother's wedding, but I've never heard more beautiful words spoken. Noone was surprised to hear the most touching epithalamion we'd ever hear. He surely spent weeks composing that heart-rending poem about the two best lovebirds I've everything known.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Flak
Sean John knew that his decision was going to be an unpopular one with the inhabitants of the island of Hon'o'wala, but even he underestimated the volume of flak he would receive from the public. He was almost afraid to show his face in public.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Beget
It's said that the world is a fair place... A circular and reciprocal arrangement of emotions and actions. You get back what you put in. What goes around comes around. The good deeds you selflessly do for others beget the same treatment for you.
Friday, June 13, 2014
Ambulant
The same grace that took her away from me
Is the grace that gave me the steely reserve
To go on.
What once was forever and static
Is ethereal and ambulant.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Sparge
I'll give you a million bucks to slap this inconsiderate egotist in the face. Make it 2 . Seeing as how it'll be an iou with a due date of hell freezing over, I'll keep raising my offer until you accept.
You know it would be worth it. This guy brings a bag full of pennies into the bank and PLOP, sparges them all over the counter, demanding the teller count each and every one, even the dozens that roll away underneath your feet.
