By Sarah E. Seeley How would I describe this smell that permeates my clothes, distinct, Louder than my sweat after every one of my four tens? It isn’t sharp or tangy like body odor, it isn’t unpleasant. Not to me. Just dusty—but not a rich, earthen way: There’s nothing damp about it, absent the teaming…
Category: Original Works
Orc Valentine Greeting Card Poem
Because the LTUE symposium usually falls over Valentines Day every year, I sold Orc-themed Valentines cards several years in a row. I’m still working on my Hallmark skills…but enjoy this nerdy-niche-fantasy-greeting-card-style poem.
Gratitude for My Sister’s Love
Another gratitude poem, this time about my favorite (and only) sister. #GiveThanks #GratitudeJournal #Sisters
Gratitude for Good Friends Like You
Yesterday was my birthday. Yesterday was also special because President Russel M. Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extended an invitation to turn our social media into our own gratitude journal for seven days, to offer personal prayers of thanks to God, and to draw closer to Jesus Christ. I am…
Excerpt: “Te Amo, Mamita”
by Sarah E. Seeley The barely teenage Eloida wasn’t supposed to be out of bed, but it wasn’t the excitement of Buena Noche, Christmas Eve, that had deprived her of sleep. She’d had another nightmare about her parents, and she’d awoken to what had struck her distinctly as her mother’s footfalls on the wooden stairs…
Excerpt: “Thought Power”
By Sarah E. Seeley Papa had lied to her again. He said he’d lost the twine bracelet she made for him when he’d gone away on patrol duty last week. But in the murmurs of his mind, between his memories and words, she learned he had cast it away; ashamed to keep a childish thing…
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