• The Library Book

    At first, I thought the catalog must be wrong.  Hadn’t I diligently checked and rechecked every single entry?  I knew the library was used all day every day and I had spent months, years even to make sure all the books, audiobooks, DVDs, that everything was entered correctly.  But now, there was an unexplained addition…

  • The Fortune Teller

    “We are really going to interrogate a fortune teller?  Which one?  Who is she?”  I stared at my partner as she was practically jumping up and down with excitement.  “What are you so excited about?  You have a thing for voodoo?  Spirits?  Think you want someone to predict your future?  Know your secrets?”  I grabbed…

  • Dynamite

    Everyone in my small settlement town had written me off from day one.  I was the immigrant, the outsider, the child.  No one gave me a chance in hell for survival.  With my parents dead from the fever raging through town, I had no choice but to strike out on my own.  I needed to make…

  • The Bandit

    “I just need to meet up with the next caravan and everything will be fine,” I told the stranger.  I just hoped she was really buying the story I had been attacked by a thief instead of being the thief myself.  “But the Bandit!  He has been up and down this road.  He might come…

  • Barbarossa

    I knew what needed to be done when Barbarossa took control of our ship in the middle of the night.  We had done everything in our power to avoid the legendary pirate and his crew, but our precautions had not paid off.  Barbarossa was one of the most recognized and feared pirates because he and…

  • Abandoned

    PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll  I knew the building was abandoned and I knew it would be the perfect place for me to hide out. I had been watching for days to make sure no one would come to check on the stability of the building, but the farmer who owned the land didn’t…

  • The Magician

    I had been waiting for the magician to arrive for weeks.  Maybe months.  Ever sure it was announced he was going to appear in court, I had been coming every day.  I had long been wanting to become a magician and play tricks on everyone around me so I needed to see the show for…

  • In the Trenches

    “I knew I was in trouble when I came to and nothing and no one looked familiar.  I sat up and looked around, not yet quite realizing the danger I was in.”  I leaned back into the couch cousins and listened to my uncle talk.  I had heard this story hundreds of times before, but…

  • Woman

    “I always knew he was only in it for the power. He was the king of invaders. The leader of fear. The uniter of tribes. A warrior with a spirit of no other.” As I started furthering my research into Genghis Khan and his life in the Mongol Empire, I knew I needed to expand…

  • Zines!

    I have recently become obsessed with making zines. It started as an idea for a library program and in trying to make a couple examples, I am now completely obsessing over them and making my own when I am home at night! I have long been obsessed with writing, journals, pens, papers and everything that…