This holiday season I was able to take part in an anthology of different short stories and poems called Second Star. Below is an excerpt of the story I wrote. If you want to read more download the whole anthology here: SecondStar Reindeer Games By Dawn Brock I knew I would be one of the chosen…
I swear Lois Lowry is going to kill me with these cliffhangers. Gathering Blue has an even worse cliffhanger than The Giver did. If this series needed more books written, I’d go insane waiting. I mean, I’ve read books that clarify there is more to come before, but never like this. These books seem…
So I started this series because my niece and nephew suggested it. After the first book, I was wondering if this was a series I really wanted to finish. After the second, I decided it was probably worth finishing. This third book, Grip of the Shadow Plague, made me so happy I continued this series….
I like to joke that I’m an optimist, masking as a realist, masking as a pessimist, but honestly, I am just a plain old optimistic person. I genuinely believe that no matter the situation it will work out exactly how it should. However, being an optimist does not mean I am always happy. I can,…
Lois Lowry is killing me with these open endings! Don’t get me wrong I have enjoyed every book in this series so far, but they all feel like they end in the middle of the story, not the end. It’s incredibly frustrating and Messenger follows that same pattern. I never realized how much I…
Read part one here and part two here. “Granma!” the boy yelled running up to a withered old woman. “Tell me a story!” “Calm down, calm down,” she laughed. “I’m not as young as I once was. Now sit down and tell me which story you want to hear.” “The one about the earth,” the…