Lena sat on her couch, excitedly opening the package from her aunt back home. Her birthday had been a month ago, but there had been some issues shipping this “mystery present”. As Lena carefully extracted the hand-wrapped gift from within the bubble-wrap-lined box, she smiled. “Thank you, Aunt Margaret…” she said to no one. She…
Luc look dazed, and for a long time it seemed he didn’t know what to say. When he did speak up, it was the same thing everyone always said: “So I can wish for anything I want?” “Almost anything,” Darius said. A newspaper and a cup of coffee sat on the café table in front…
A Beautiful Wishby 800ibgorrila Prologue Beyond the Cliffs of Torment there was nothing. The sunset cast its dying glow on the seas, crashing against the black volcanic rocks of the cliffs. Large curtains of steam blasted off the meeting between stone and sea, as the waves mixed with the liquid hot sludge cascading down the…
A Beautiful Wishby 800ibgorrila Chapter 1: Waking from Reality George lazily opened his eyes to the sight of the ceiling fan in his room spinning slowly overhead. Its hypnotic circles threatened to put him to sleep again. He turned to the alarm clock next to the bed, it read just past 1:00 am. He turned…
A Beautiful Wishby 800ibgorrila Chapter 2: Song of the New Day Light poured in through George’s bedroom window and splashed directly across his face. He had tried to fight the growing realization that he was awake by covering himself with a pillow and willing himself back into a dream with Dawn. But he eventually gave…
A Beautiful Wishby 800ibgorrila Chapter 3: First Fantasy For George, it had been a day unlike any other. Out of the ashes of one of the worst days of his life, in which he had been picked on, scolded, beaten up, and humiliated, sprung a new day that had quickly become the most joyous he…
A Beautiful Wishby 800ibgorrila Chapter 4: Frog Prince The early summer morning light fell across George’s back and warmed him to the point of being uncomfortable. George was awake, but he couldn’t bear to move, or breath, or open his eyes, for fear of joining the day without Dawn by his side. Before she had…
A Beautiful Wishby 800ibGorrila Chapter 5: The Heart Remembers The water streamed across George and Dawn’s entwined bodies. It traced the lines of George’s lean muscles and caressed Dawn’s impossible curves. They kissed and embraced and joined over and over, enjoying a closeness that neither had felt in their short time together. George cleaned her…
A Beautiful Wishby 800ibgorrila Chapter 6: Mother’s Love George ran to the house in a panic. A million worst-case scenarios flashed through his mind, visions of blood, chalk-lines, his mother, dead. He burst through the open threshold expecting to see a scene out of a bloody cop drama. Instead he could hear is mother’s distraught…
A Beautiful Wish by 800ibgorrila Chapter 7: Losing a Little “George,” whispered Dawn’s soft feminine voice. George Everhart was fully awake. He had been, ever since he heard Dawn open his bedroom door and crawl onto his bed. She was sitting on her knees beside him and brought her face very close to his as…