I love that there was one kid, the loner, the one that teachers said was always daydreaming and never could buckle down and work, that all the other kids thought was a little weird. Until the day he spoke up and spun a tale and captured their imaginations. After this visit, they still thought he was a little weird, but now they were fine with that.
And perhaps back in class the teacher challenged them all to come up with their own ending.
And thank you for subscribing to mine. I'm following your posts with interest - still finding the Substack thing confusing, but yours is a good one to watch for engagement and inspiration.
I took them all down except a couple of collections of short stories. The publisher who was going to publish a series demanded that I take down the prequel series first. I did, then they sold out.
delicious. Thank-you!
Glad you enjoyed the menu :)
I love that there was one kid, the loner, the one that teachers said was always daydreaming and never could buckle down and work, that all the other kids thought was a little weird. Until the day he spoke up and spun a tale and captured their imaginations. After this visit, they still thought he was a little weird, but now they were fine with that.
And perhaps back in class the teacher challenged them all to come up with their own ending.
Thanks for the lovely comment, Mike! I have a feeling though that nobody will talk about the visit to the split rock for a long time.
I love this! A magnificent “fairytale”! I collect them, you know, and this one is a prize.
Glad you like it! I enjoy writing my own fairy tales, legends, myths. Why not? They’re all only stories after all :)
Oh, I like this a lot. A bit of sky for sapphires, new leaves for emeralds—that was good.
Thank you. The myth that salamanders lived in fire has always fascinated me. Having seen one, I can see why they were thought to have strange powers!
Jane, this is superb. it rivals anything you might find in Grimm.
Thank you! At least it doesn’t have some poor innocent condemned to horrors for eternity :)
Wonderful, Jane. Thanks.
I’m pleased you enjoyed it!
Fantastic!! Salamanders at the centre of the earth😍
And where else would they be? Glad you like the story!
Kids, they'll ask you "And then what?" until you reach the end of history. Or "But why?" until you arrive at the prime mover of the cosmos.
Often they know the answers better than we do.
Great story! I love that the gems we humans find are the spat-out pips of the good stuff.
Who knows? Nobody’s ever been down there to find out :)
Thank you!
And thank you for subscribing to mine. I'm following your posts with interest - still finding the Substack thing confusing, but yours is a good one to watch for engagement and inspiration.
Thank you! I can’t read a lot of your posts, or maybe I’m doing something wrong. I find most techy things confusing—Substack is not exception.
Oh dear! All my posts except the Paris one have a link in, wonder if I’ve done the links wrong. Thanks for pointing out.
More likely to be me not looking in the right place!
I love the ending!
Oh! I love this one!
Shivers.
I am! Sort of :)
I meant publishing them here :) I have published collections of short stories before and nobody read them. I know you’d do your damnedest though xx
I took them all down except a couple of collections of short stories. The publisher who was going to publish a series demanded that I take down the prequel series first. I did, then they sold out.