The Written Word Group

In 1951 a five year old boy hears of a British victory in the Le Mans 24 hour race. 

He begins to imagine what it would be like to  design and build a racing car to race in that Le Mans event. This becomes his dream.

 In 1966 he makes his dream come true.

A husband and wife mind reading act have created a brilliant illusion, one where they convince the audience that they really can read a person's thoughts. That while blindfolded, it is possible to identify an object and describe the person who owns it. 

Audiences loved it and their act grew in popularity. 

Everything was going well, until one performance, when something highly unusual and unsettling occurred.

A young man had a dream about a lady dressed in white.

One day, on his way home,  he sees her, the lady who he had dreamt about. She is walking ahead of him and has a white dog with her.

The young man hurries to catch up with her.

The outcome is not what he expected.

The theatrical performance had been perfect and after a standing ovation the curtains close.

The Director looks for his leading lady, but she is nowhere to be found in the theatre.  No one has seen her since she walked off the stage.

Where could she be?  And what is the twist at the end.

Jake stood with the small crowd which had gathered on the river bank. They were watching the police and fire brigade work hard  to retrieve a car which had crashed through the thick ice. 

But all was not as it seemed.

On his way to his date with Marianne, Steve  drives past the wreckage of a car crash. He was more irritated than anything else because the hold up and detour were going to make him late. 

He needn't have worried. The evening turned out to be very special and neither of them expected to feel the way they did about eachother.

However, everything  was shattered the following day when Steve wakes up to an empty bed and to breaking news that the woman killed in a horrific car accident was named as Marianne Wisdom.

How could that be?

Its Christmas Eve and an elderly man is at home putting the lights on the Christmas tree while his wife does last minute shopping.

The open fire is comforting and casts light throughout the room, reflecting in the window pane. A storm is brewing, or is it?

A delightful story that lets us have a peek inside the thoughts of a man, left with a simple task, but overshadowed by an active imagination.

This story is based on fond memories of my Grandmother when I was about 7 years of age. I would stay a weekend with her in her old shack. I will always remember my Grandmother with great respect. 

Who would think, that in the process of buying an ice-cream from your favorite Mr. Softy van, you could be contributing to the kidnap and torture of the nice man who  asks if you would like sprinkles on that?

 As you are about to hear, trading on someone's else's patch can have devastating repercussions.

In towns and city's everywhere, sit nosey pigeons. They watch the comings and goings of the regulars and often are the first to know what's going on in the neighborhood.

A different piece of writing for me, something light hearted and easy to digest:}