Two Sentence Tuesday #23

            He investigated the charred and gutted remains of the old schoolhouse, where a teacher and her eight students had long ago perished in a mysterious inferno. As he stopped to change the battery in his camera, the stillness was broken by the echoes of the teacher imparting her final lesson to the class.

Two Sentence Tuesday #22

And they witnessed the Republic, a shining beacon of liberty and democracy, mortally wounded by the corruption that had poisoned its heart. As the grand experiment gasped its final breaths, gluttonous bureaucrats closed in like jackals, preparing for an extravagant feast.

Two Sentence Tuesday #21

For five weeks, Geoff battled the cowardly voices in his head and fought against his every natural impulse until he had finally marshaled the courage to ask Hallie out for dinner. In the span of five seconds, Hallie had said “no”.

Two Sentence Tuesday #20

An amber army, slender and tall, had marched down the road, sweating in splashes onto the pavement, beneath them. We followed that grand parade with rapt attention… this, indeed, was a wondrous show!