Short stories: Childhood dreams 7 Articles

by Dan Hope

The Dream of Victory As usual, Neldon was the last picked for the dodge ball game. His frail body was all elbows and knees and he looked as if one solid hit with a ball would put him in the hospital instead of in the "o...read more

by Gina Barr

REMEMBERING LINDA The short woman drew a heavy breath and pushed the black, plain trunk across her bedroom floor, from her closet. "Linnie, be careful, you might hurt yourself." The short woman looked up and into the ...read more

by Donald Courtney

l. Small Country Town: Running beside the big Sioux in Iowa two boys age 12 were playing like they were Lewis and Clark on an expedition. They often played this game, with broken branches trimmed down to resemble the ol...read more

by Tammy Inott

As a child......and even as an adult, the topics in the mind float from one subject to the next so fast, how many times does one blink before they realize how many different things they have just thought of? From the "Land...read more

by Ascen Arriazu

The mounster on the wall used to look at me with sad eyes every night: "If you don't close your eyes I will keep looking at you all nigth and will make you cry," he would say, "yes, sir," I used to murmure back in fear. ...read more

by Shaheen D.

Leona was sitting in her park while her children played around her. As she saw them laughing and playing a childhood dream came back to her as vivid as it was all those years ago. She could not stop smiling to herself as s...read more

by Felina Lune Kavi

It's a lucky thing for most of us that our childhood dreams don't carry into adulthood. Were that to have happened to me, I would be living in a very strange world. Aside from having beautifully long, crimped hair in var...read more