Novel Allen
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.
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The Haunting of Heber house
"The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window". "Legend has it, that once you see the candle, you will die within a day of the first sighting. Believe it or not, this cabin has been around for over three hundred years. Every year on the anniversary of the strange disappearance of Katarina Heber, the candle appears, and a person, or sometimes persons, go missing and are never seen or heard from again, all that is left is a trail of blood, a lock of hair and a bloody handprint"! Josephina paused for effect, searching the faces for reactions.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Horror
Going home again at summertime
Having not seen my birth home for a very long time, I had misgivings and apprehensions about returning home. So much would have changed, people and everyday activities would have changed. Everything that I remembered would have to be reevaluated and reassessed. But the things that cannot change are the traditions of many a generation in the making.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Feast
Through a magnifying glass to find a father
Looking back, I don't remember ever saying Happy Father's Day to my father. We were all so busy rushing headlong into this business of eking out and forging a livable existence, that the little important things got lost along the way. So now I will have to reserve that honor for our meeting in the afterlife. May you rest in peace, father dear.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Confessions
The real dragons who will judge our stories
"There weren't always dragons in the Valley is what everyone is saying, Tlomeny, who are they getting all this information from, all these stories are making my head spin, is it...."? "Well let me just stop you right there missy. First of all, you all know nothing of dragons. Did you stop to consult a real dragon to get all the facts. Of course not, you all just took it upon your human heads and started spitting out a whole distorted confabulation of misinformation from here there and everywhere, it's enough to give us dragons nightmares for the rest of our lives".
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Fiction
When dragons became pixies
There weren't always dragons in the Valley of the small world of the Freedom pixie sprites. My name is Moonbeam, and long ago I started dreaming of these wonderful flying beings with multicolored wings and beautiful kind eyes that wished to be my friends. When we spoke, we somehow understood each other. They were pleasant dreams, the kinds that made you wake up smiling and wishing that they were real.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Fiction
Never take a baby dragon to a reggae concert
There weren't always dragons in the Valley deep in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Tonight up at the Marijuana Resort Lodge many bands were in competition for first prize of a loan of a baby dragon. They had come from far and wide just to jam with Ocean the baby dragon.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Fiction
The persuasive power of images
"Like the Entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased, in the garden of gray matter, cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secret of the mind"....Santiago Ramon y Cahal....on the persuasive power of images.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Humans
