Admiral Ove Gjedde was going through the ship’s log when the king’s summons came. He hurried to the audience hall. The King of Danes, Christian IV, was dressed in his royal finery. There was a gle...
He slowly opened his eyes. The light seemed too bright. His eyes were hurting. He instinctively felt around for the bars of his cage. He found none. He took a few steps and found himself at the edge.....
The words in the book shivered and cried,
They shook the pages and crawled outside;
They climbed his dreams and thoughts alike,
And wove a web beneath his eyes.
They swam in him and reached his......
The wind howled around him, yelling like a banshee. It snatched his flimsy old umbrella and deposited it on top of a swaying tree. The rain drops hit him like bullets. He pulled his coat closer but it...
Twelve collective pair of eyes followed the trajectory of the red rubber ball. They saw it soar across the sky and land with an audible splosh in the old, abandoned well at the edge of the school......