Magical Creature Land: Part 3

[continued from part 2, here]

Deep in the bottom of the sea, past coral and seaweed and many strange creatures, she found the Encantado’s cave. Yellow Grass was eager to help. She said the spell was etched into a stone buried with rocks in shallow water. If they could reach it before the tide came in, they might be able to find it.

Green Grass Sweet swam to the shore as fast as she could. Returning to her human form, she ran with Unicorn Purple Sky and dragon BeeBee to the spot Yllow Grass had specified. As the tide crept in, they furiously rummaged through the rocks.

“I found it!” cried Unicorn Purple Sky. “This is it!” The friends held hands and read the spell together with their toes in the rising water. The Unicorn fell into the water, at least returning to her selkie-seal form.

“Huzzah!” cried the friends.

“Farewell Beebee! We’ll see you again soon!” the two selkies cried as they swam out into the sea, towards the setting sun, laughing and splashing as they dove deep into the water.

The End

 . . . for now . . . 

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Magical Creature Land: Part 2

[part one of the story found here]

Green Grass Sweet scrambled to put on the selkie coat Unicorn Purple Sky threw to her, and race towards the sea as rain drops splashed on her head. But before she was close to the waters edge, Star Monsters began to dive to the ground, in between the friends and the water.

Green Grass Sweet ran left. Unicorn Purple Sky ran right and flapped her wings to distract the monsters. Beebee blew great flames as he ran close behind Green Grass Sweet, warding off the monsters coming towards her.

Green Grass Sweet narrowly escaped the monsters with the help of her friends. Scrambling to get her arm into the sleeves of her selkie coat as she ran, she dove into the water, just in the nick of time.

As the waves crashed over Green Grass Sweet, her human form melted away and she began to smoothly glide through the water with her new seal flippers. She twirled and soared through the water, enjoying her new form.

Eventually she remembered her friends and emerged at the surface to show them it had worked, she’d become a seal! “Hooray!” cried the unicorn and dragon. “Now you can help me to turn back into a selkie too! You must find my friend, Yellow Grass. She is an Encantado, a dolphin who turns human on land. She has not come to the surface in a long time, so I have not been able to ask her where the spell that can turn me back into a selkie is hidden. You must find her cave and get the clues! “I will do my best,” cried Green Grass Sweet, as she dove beneath the water again.

to be continued . . . 

Reader Request: Obsession

This request comes from John, the roommate of a friend of mine here in Virginia. I've been to a couple of the same parties as John, after which we became facebook friends, via which I have learned that we have a lot of similar interests, including a passion for the great citizens of Pawnee. Run-on sentence complete. On to the post!


Here are my top five obsessions, in no particular order:
1. Elmo hats. I wore one very nearly every day from sixth to eighth grade. I think I had about five different ones over that span, but they all featured Elmo. Also, I always wore it backward. Awesome? Sure.
2. Lakers. After my high school graduation, I took pictures with my family, two friends caught me on my way out, and then we went to watch the Lakers game. It was during finals. I needed to see it. Needed. 
3. Volleyball. I wasn't good, but I also wasn't bad. I loved playing and watching and practicing so much that I was a stats/ball girl for the boy's team for three years in high school. I even got PE credit for boy's volleyball practice. Blammo.
4. Roswell. I've been obsessed with a lot of TV shows - Friends, SNL, HIMYM, Alias, and 24, just to name a few - but I really let my crazy flag fly with Roswell. The best example I can give is that I had a party for the finale, and a friend and I made themed cupcakes and a list of rules. The last rule essentially stated that if people were not quiet during the show, we would have no problem asking them to leave. Serious business.
5. Matthew Paige Damon. I may have once started decoupaging a pair of shoes with pictures of his face. Just maybe. Judge me freely.


There are some other obsessions that didn't quite hit the crazy meter enough to make the top five which include: SNL, Facebook, finding the perfect boot, ping pong, troll dolls, Ingrid Michaelson (her music, not really her, although she seems like a lovely person), Diet Pepsi, the proper spelling of homonyms, unicorns, pirates, and more. I wonder what the difference is between obsession and passion. Is obsession just an unhealthy version of being passionate about something or someone? And where does addiction land on that scale? I have no answers here, people. 


On a more serious note, I wish I could tell you that I am both obsessed with and addicted to Jesus. That He consumes my every thought and that all I want is more more more. But in all honesty, I'm not quite there yet. I love Him, I desire Him, I strive to honor Him with my life and with my capitalization of His pronoun, but I am not wholly obsessed. Maybe one way I can get there is to decrease my time with my earthly obsessions and increase my time with Him. And maybe that could be my most lasting, beautiful obsession. 


In conclusion, the first thing I thought of when I read "Obsession" was Calvin Klein's Obsessions for Men which is totally strange since Jeff and I are not fragrance people. 


The end.