Have you heard what happened to Sombo under the starlit sky? Tiny, smooth ripples at the edge of a large, starlit lake…slender fingers of tall green grass swayed gently back and forth…miniature minnows made swirls and darted away… A rowboat moored to a rickety, pine dock bumped its bow against the post with the bow line around it. Sombo walked slowly and gingerly across … Read the rest…
Category Archives: short bedtime stories
Chasing The Dream
Are you chasing the dream? Or “the fix?” One morning, about three years ago…or was it three years from now, Ivanto woke up before sunrise to beautiful colors swirling around in his room. They appeared to be encased in glass. There were thousands of these little orbs, and every few seconds one would smash into the wall and burst. And tiny shards of light would … Read the rest…
Are You A “Media” I Should Talk With? I take issue with social media as a means of conversation. There…I said it…and I’m not taking it back. But notice I said “conversation”…not communication. Social media is an awesome way to communicate your message to any person or group you care to connect with. (or is that “with whom you’d like to connect”…I don’t want … Read the rest…
Well, the illustrations continue for my bedtime stories Volume 1 Here’s the potential book cover… Oddly enough…I’ve never considered myself an illustrator. And I certainly wouldn’t put myself on par with other illustrators for kids books like Peter Reynolds…or Shannon Parrish. But I’m having a really good time coming up with my own characters and then drawing them. I’ve just finished the main character … Read the rest…
My bedtime stories need some illustrations…so… Isn’t it a writer’s prerogative to change his mind? Oh wait…that’s supposed to be “woman’s”…not writer’s. Well, whatever. I’ve changed my mind about how I’m gonna write and publish this series of bedtime stories. Instead of writing every day of August…I’m gonna write a story, do the illustrations, format for publishing, and publish. Then rinse and repeat. I … Read the rest…
The 2nd in a series of bedtime stories… Another one of my bedtime stories is finished. This is a blast. I’m working on 3 others today, and I’ll be sharing more about them in later posts. These stories will be joining my other ebooks for kids on Amazon.com. On day two of my writing challenge I wrote about a little guy named Meep…who wouldn’t … Read the rest…
My quest to write a series of bedtime stories began a couple of days ago. If you take a sleepless puppy, a bullfrog, an owl, some crickets, and even a blue-eyed armadillo…and put them all together…what do you get? The first, in a series of bedtime stories, I wrote to add to my other books for kids. Zazzo is a puppy who can’t get … Read the rest…