The gnarled woman leaned on the shovel, sweat glistening her brow as she pointed to the headstone growing out of her garden of graves. “Over there is Charlie P. Marks. Handsome fellow. The third part of a love triangle, he was. Turns out he just dragged down the story.” She tapped her shovel on the…
“If you let your imagination work hard enough, son, this bear will travel in space.” The boy spent many years developing his imagination, remembering that day on the bicycle as they attempted to go fast enough to fly. He attempted again and again to have his bear become an astronaut, but his dream remained unfulfilled.…
For days, they passed over hills and valleys. The landscape turned from mountains and pine trees, to deserts and rolling fields of sand, to glaciers and frozen ridges, to broken cities and fighting robots. Still, their search was incomplete. As the pink hues of dawn warmed another day, the grandfather pointed to the horizon. “There…
The L. Palmer Chronicles 