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My Year In Books
A look back at what I read in 2024.
🐦⬛The Night The Circus Came to Town
The woman reached the crossroads. A wooden post with fading white paint stood in the middle; four different town names were written crudely on each side. Her fathomless eyes took in her surroundings.
Tree Time - Oak
Scene From An Oak
Mayflower, the guardian of the oak, smoothed her frilly lavender-colored skirt, the fabric rustling softly, and squared her tiny shoulders. The lilac shirt she wore shimmered in a ray of morning light, and the mayflowers on her head quivered as she held back a little laugh, the blossoms bobbing.
🐦⬛Haunted Reflections
Johnathon stood at the end, looking out the floor-to-ceiling windows. Cold seeped through the 100-year old panes of glass. He pulled his gray cardigan closer around his broad frame and gazed out at the English hills bathed in an unforgiving light from the full moon.
The Circus Clown, part 1 (of 2)
He was fifteen years old, the circus rolled into town one crisp, autumn day. For a week the townsfolk patronized The Greatest Show on Earth.