Two Sentence Tuesday #19

The spirited young man had peered intently into the pool’s rippling surface as though mesmerized by its endless cascade of expanding rings. When the waters had finally calmed, he found himself gazing at his wrinkled, gray reflection. 

Two Sentence Tuesday #18

There are Supermoons and then there was this. Supermoons are a breathtaking sight, to be sure, but they could never hope to match the apocalyptic stature of the moon at the moment it had drifted lazily into our atmosphere.

Two Sentence Tuesday #17

The fierce warrior, howling through a helmet caked with battle, thundered toward the savagely blazing dragon with his broadsword raised high above his head, ready to deal his enemy a mortal blow.

“Shit,” he muttered, ruefully eyeing the 'one' he had just rolled on his twenty-sided die… and the dragon feasted.

Two Sentence Tuesday #16

From the very beginning, they knew that his ambition would be detrimental to their whole way of life. Yet it was only as they looked upon the wasted remnants of their once bountiful landscape that they realized how much they had woefully underestimated his capacity for pestilence. 

Every Little Bit

 I’d love nothing more than to impart a sampling

Of tantalizing verse to brighten up your soul

When it’s grayed with weariness… I truly would.

Unfortunately, I’m feeling bereft of any poetic

Sensibilities, today, so the most I can offer is this:

Close your eyes and picture sodden magnolias,

Silky and pale, lying upon a luxuriantly grassy bed.

A cool September breeze laps up their perfume

And bathes you as you laze away the afternoon,

Picking out shapes in the opaline clouds, above…

…does that do anything for you?

Two Sentence Tuesday #15

He never felt like “I love you” came remotely close to capturing the boundless scope of his feelings for her. And yet one enchanted kiss had told her volumes more than those three short words ever could.