Something I found while looking through old boxes.  Fun times digging through memories.

Always used to get funky haircuts before shaving our bodies for the final swim meet.

Found some old poetry while looking through boxes at my parent's house.  might go through the notebook and rewrite a few...

I am a pine tree
Big and tall
With glossy green needles
That grow and fall

Found a bunch of old papers in boxes at my parent's house.  Included are short stories, poems, stories started but not finished, and a whole bunch of random ideas, some of which don't make sense to me now.   Wrote about dark stuff, light stuff, love stuff, fight stuff and a whole bunch of random stuff.

 

 

 

Some examples:

 

 

A brilliant teacher can have a bad day.

 

 

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His aim was pure

His aim was sure

The point went through the heart

The enemy fell

On its way to hell

Pierced by a lethal dart

 

 

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Gather round children

Hear my story

Of a brave warrior

And his descent from glory

 

Many battles

Did he fight

With shield in hand

Sword in flight

 

Until one day

He betook a quest

To do the impossible

To defeat the best

 

He challenged the one

The only knight

Whose heart of darkness

Feared no light

 

Upon a dark and

Stormy night

The two warriors arrived

Prepared to fight

 

The battle was bloody

The dark warrior mean

He did away with the knight

Quick and clean

 

Without a leader

The good army fell

To the darkness

To the hell

 

And so the warrior's

Excessive pride

Brought down his kingdom

Made good men die.

 

 

I don't think I plagarized, but these were written in grade school, so please tell me if they sound like something you've read.



Spent a few hours looking through old stuff while visiting my parents.  Can't use their home as storage anymore, so had to get rid of all my old fantasy books.  I kept the magic cards and comics, but the rest have moved on to other readers.

Just launched the second book of the Spirits Saga, "Spirits From Afar", on Storycartel. Download in exchange for an honest review. And enjoy!

https://storycartel.com/books/spirits-from-afar

 

Or buy it here on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Spirits-Afar-Book-two-Saga-ebook/dp/B01CVO67VS?ie=UTF8&keywords=spirits%20from%20afar&qid=1464595536&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

 

Still on a bender of writer's block.  It's become more of a baking break though.  Here are some pics from my apple cinnammon day. 

#notwritingatthemoment  #beginnerbaker

     Yes, they're supposed to be apple roses...

  After how the apple roses turned out, I wasn't so certain about how my mini apple pie thingy looked...At this point I thought the only thing I would get for all my efforts was a counter top with flour, sugar, egg and cinnamon on it

 
 

Luckily the mini aple pie thingy turned out awesome and tasted even better than it looked. 

Getting settled in to the new place but, in the meantime, I got a new oven and have had a weekend of baking.  Started out with pizzas, which turned out good and encouraged me to keep going.  Did my go to cranberry orange scones, then tried something new, apple cinnamon scones, which turned out great.  Then made more pizza for my wife's family.  And, this morning, made an assortment of bagels.  All good.  :)

I will get back to writing the third book after a short trip to Japan next weekend.  ;)  Check out the first two on amazon if you haven't already.

http://www.amazon.com/Spirits-Plains-Book-one-Saga-ebook/dp/B00WCM5680/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460356240&sr=8-1&keywords=spirits+of+the+plains

Book two of the Spirits Saga, Spirits From Afar, is out.  Find it here and enjoy!  :)

http://www.amazon.com/Spirits-Afar-Book-two-Saga-ebook/dp/B01CVO67VS/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Moving houses.  My time is booked.

Book two is almost ready, dealing with cover designs.  In the meantime, you can enjoy my collection of short stories (scary ones, not fantasy).  The book is called Imaginative Insomnia and includes five short stories that I thought of during a sleepless night when all I could think of was writing. 

I would love to hear what you think about it!  You can find it here. 
http://www.amazon.com/Imaginative-Insomnia-collection-short-stories-ebook/dp/B01BK29FZ2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1455581489&sr=1-1&keywords=imaginative+insomnia

Planning stages for book three are underway, I like to think in color.  A few more little things to do to book two, but it's coming soon.

Q for Amazon authors.  Is there a way to see books downloaded when on KDP Select, not just normalized pages read?

As an addition to my earlier post, you can buy the paperback version of my book, Spirits of the Plains, through createspace.  Here's the link.

https://www.createspace.com/5852272

Finally got the paperback version of my first book taken care of.  It should be availiable on Amazon in a few days.  I'll finish editing book two this month, and hopefully have it on amazon by early February.