Short stories: Childhood 95 Articles

by Kira Tynan

WHITE WATER RULES "There aren't as many cars in the parking lot this summer," said Justin's grandmother. "That means we'll go a lot faster, right, Gran?" "We'll go pretty fast." "Cool. I can't wait to get down...read more

by Andrea Hein

Throwing Stones The evening was just making her appearance on that late summer day as I hastily pedaled my bicycle down Little Rock Place. Pale pinks and oranges rolled across a ...read more

by Monica Mohr

Jason says I'm crazy. He says I have hippie feet. "What's that?" I ask, wondering if it's good or bad. Jason replies "It means they're calloused and permanently dirty on the bottom." I sigh, looking down despondently at my...read more

by Karin Becton

TOY DAYS The small boy wandered through the souvenir shop with an almost reverent attitude. He tenderly fingered the feather-tipped headband, gazed longingly at the genuine leather tomahawk, and tested the tips of the b...read more

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by Karl Stephany

The Wind Lover We were all happy on that warm spring day before summer vacation. Well, that's the way it started out. It was later in the afternoon when the tornado came and scared the heck out of everyb...read more

by Elizabeth Bickford

They thought it was some kids in the night. Everyone said that someone started it. No one said who. I don't think they knew. I know. "Arson" they said. No one said accident. No one wants to listen to an eight ye...read more

by Aneatra

I Saw The Tooth Fairy Like millions of children, I always placed a newly fallen out tooth under the pillow, for the tooth fairy. In the morning, through the magic of childhood belief in the possible, money awaited me...read more

by Jean Wright

The smell of warm cookies filled the small little house when I came home from playing with Jimmy outside. Hm, Mom was busy getting ready for dinner tonight. Mamma was at the kitchen sink and turned when she heard the doo...read more

by Kimberly Fong

Sally, a cherubic little seven-year-old girl, slurps her strawberry lollipop hungrily. She is sitting comfortably on the fresh, dewy grass outside her house. However, she is unaware of the lurking big menace approaching ...read more

by Kim Coltman

Everyone has memories of their childhood... some good some bad. I have discovered over the years that most people do not have memories before the age of 5, and nearly everyone I have talked to, don't remember beyond the ag...read more

by Prairie

Pickles and Daisies I was helping Grandma Jean stuff cucumbers into canning jars when someone knocked on her back door. Hardly anyone used the back door. They usually came through the kitchen. "Now, who could that b...read more

by Margaret Shauers

THE DECISION When Rodney Timmons left the junkyard, he was limping. "Rats on old Mr. Jarvis," he muttered to himself. "Imagine having a pipe sticking out of the ground like that. It's a wonder I didn't break my who...read more

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by Alan Freeman

Fiddler "Burn off please, Lord, make it burn off before he stays home today. Don't let him stay home today" Melvin, staring out the second story hall window, eyes wide one moment, then squeezed shut in concentr...read more

by Stonehenge

It's weird how smells play such an important role in how we remember critical events from the past. Anytime I look back on that fateful afternoon, I feel hungry because I smell French fries and grease. I like that smell,...read more

by Carol Gustke

STEPHEN'S BIG PROBLEM Stephen was eight years old. He had red hair, blue eyes and freckles that dotted his nose and cheeks. Stephen lived in a white house on a street called Maple street. He lived there with his mot...read more

by Barbara Kasey Smith

It doesn't take but a few seconds for me to lie back and shut my eyes to take a trip down memory's lane to pleasant days of long ago...I drift back to the days of fishing with Dad on the New River in West Virginia. The riv...read more

by Charlotte Hillaird

EASTER THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD A butter tinged, spring sun brightened the ground inches from the three sided, two stepped porch where we, the pre-school children of Greenwood Baptist church, sat for our Sunda...read more

by Aaron Bushue

"The President of the United States is elected by 535 members of the Electoral College" said Mrs. Wainwright who teaches 5th grade at George Washington Middle School in Washington D.C. Michael whose dad had instilled in h...read more

by Andrew Barlass

Pink Cap (edited version) It was a normal day. "Do you want to come over later?" "Nah, my mum says going to your house is a distraction." "She smells." Dan laughed, "Sorry, can't though." Dan and James were goi...read more

by Laura Francis

A Full Day T he little boy woke up that morning rubbing his eye and whined," I don't want to go to school today." "Oh honey, what's the matter?" asked his mother. "I just don't want to go," he said. "Okay, we'll de...read more