Another journal

Written during my month of writing.  You can find all the sections here.

In the bright twilight softened with blue shadow, the common yard looked less shabby. The planters of wildflowers hadn’t succumbed to the heat yet and lent patches of colour to the circle of lawn at the center of the court.

As they did every evening, the court’s children tumbled and lay in the grass, some engaging in a sneaky war of blowing dandelion fluff at each other. They confined their play to a third of the space, the rest of the lawn occupied by a motley assortment of chairs and stools from each trailer, facing an aluminium TV tray that was serving as a podium. Nerves rose up in Emily’s throat, wasn’t it weird to do this right out in the open, in front of the kids? Her natural panic at possible embarrassment was stayed by remembering that every occupant of the court was from the Sidhe. The court itself was well-screened by trees.

Mirrored from Journal of a Something or Other.