Posts
This is from a book I wrote for my youngest son, Benjamin, for Christmas last year. Since then, I've been polishing it and getting it into printable form--between house renovating and the myriad of surprises that life brings daily, weekly, etc.
Andrée, my artist wife, is working on the illustrations. Hopefully, this book will be a solid reality within the next month. -DW
Uh oh…
Ben slowly turned back to the
water. The shadow was closer now. He looked at the cloudless sky. The boy was
standing where the grass came up to the water. There were no overhanging trees
here; only a “No Swimming” sign stood nearby. The strange shadow drifted closer.
His hoped-for guess dissolved; it couldn’t be the sign’s shadow.
The sun sparkled from a multitude
of places within the darkness. On the surface of the water, and without
substance, it didn’t look like oil or anything floating but just seemed to extend
a little into the water, like a… well, like a shadow.
Ben looked for the minnows. They
were gone.
