Fantasy Series: Fantasy is Addictive

Frankly, I did not mean to write this entire blog post in the style I did, but as it turned out, I felt led just to publish almost the whole thing in story format instead of as an article.  Maybe it will at least be easier to read...

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     "Susie, have you completed that assignment on the French Revolution?"
     Susie hastily slid The Return of the King into her desk, picked up her pencil, and was bent over the history book which lay before her, resting her left forefinger beside the paragraph which she was reading, when Mom opened the bedroom door. Mom was pleased to see her being so diligent, but repeated her question as Susie looked up from her book, apparently surprised by her mother's appearance.
     "No ma'am," she answered, pushing away the guilty feeling which told her she should have been working on her research paper instead of reading Tolkien's classic. But that book was just impossible to put down...

My First Short Story: Vision Forum Essay Contest: "Fight Hard and Hold Fast!"

     This is the story I sent in to Vision Forum for their  catalog front-cover essay contest in 2011.  The theme was "Fight Hard and Hold Fast".  The original version was much more rough and full of problems than this one, and, needless to say, it didn't place.  I was going to enter the contest last year too (2012), but completely forgot to send in my story.  Grrr....  Oh well, maybe the Lord just wanted my siblings and friends to be the only ones to read it.  :)
I was hunting all over the internet today looking for the original picture that the story was built around, but could not find it anywhere.  I have no idea why it has been apparently deleted from the web, but it is.  So... I have put in the photo which they replaced the old one with, and will have to leave the additional details in the original to the imagination of my readers.
      I know this story isn't the best, but I hope you all enjoy it, and will try to finish/ think up some new ones later on.  Next week I will be posting my first book review, so "stay tuned"!

(Quick note:  if there is anything said in this story that appears offensive against a nation or class of people, please forgive it, as it is purely the expression of the character(s), and I do not think so myself, though it may have been true at the time, and it was added solely to give more reality to the story.)