Overdue...

Way too long. I REALLY suck at this game.

I have been spending a lot of time doing research lately; finding good info for story ideas, digging further than I need to because it is so interesting!

Start fiction:


     Chimes rang, somewhere in the neighborhood. It was a sound Pete had heard before, often. It echo more clearly as he sat under the maple tree in the front yard, surveying his surroundings. Most of his neighbors were at the lake, enjoying the holiday, giving Pete some pleasure to have his lawn to himself, if even only for a few hours.
     The afternoon air smelled sweet from the fresh cut lawn on which he was reclining. The breeze was cool, gentle. The sun was still hanging high in the afternoon sky. A ice cold beer in hand. And for the most part, silence.
     He turned his attention away from the chimes, the smells, the breeze, the sun; away from everything. He closed his eyes and let his imagination play. At least that is what he called it, for anything else would land him in a mental ward. The visions he saw, the sounds he heard, and the emotions he felt were sometimes more real to Pete than this "reality".
     Pete had some issues. He knew it, his family knew it, his wife knew it. He was able to maintain most days. However, today was not one of those days...


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