Short Stories

Encounters with the Wild One

Don't let my whimpy background fool you. I offer you tales, legends, fables, dreams, memories. I offer you inner visions of a being, a force, old beyond old. She has teeth and claws, and she is not afraid to use them. She lives within us all, and breathes through us, if only we allow her passage through our hearts. We remember her when we stroke our cats, and when we lay mulch on our garden beds. We dream of her sometimes, but too often forget our dreams. She is the source of emotion, support, intuition, and pain tolerance. She can raise the dead and heal our sorrow. Allow me to show you the entrance to her desert burrow.


Birth of the Ancestor

Indulgence of Memory

The Moon and all Birds

The Girl who Listened

All stories, text, concepts, characters, etc. Copyright © 2002 Marybeth "Background" Barton

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