fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about our family dynamics, traditions, and if there's such thing as a 'perfect family.'
Marty finds his Colors
Marty the Macaw was just like every other macaw. His feathers were blue, red and yellow and he lived in the rainforest. He had friends that weren’t macaws and they lived nearby. Marty was excited because the gathering of colors was coming up. The gathering was a celebration the birds had each year to appreciate each birds’ colorful feathers. This year was special though because some birds were coming that didn’t live in the rainforest. Marty couldn’t wait to meet them all and celebrate! He was looking at his reflection in his drinking water when he heard a commotion from the ground. He stuck his head out of his tree and saw something swinging on the trees and running fast along the branches.
By Rebecca Hackney4 years ago in Families
Under the Volcano
After my brother was drafted into the Vietnam War. I rarely saw him again. Following the divorce from his first wife. He’d suffered cocaine addiction and visited me for a short time. After completing a substance abuse program in California. He returned to visit me a few years later with his new and much younger Asian wife. Soon after that, in 1989, He hired to work as a technician for an observatory on top of Mt. Mauna Kea. So they moved into a house near the base of the mountain in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii.
By Arlo Hennings4 years ago in Families
The Life and Times of Grizzly Bill
The Life and Times of Grizzly Bill Written By Bill Chamberlain Chapter One In the beginning It was the Fieppe Raid in Aug. of 1942 and as Bill and three of his fellow Rangers moved forward they came across seven enemy soldiers in a bunker dug into the side of a hill. As two of the Rangers advanced from the left Bill and the third Ranger did the same from the right. George Hill, a six foot Texan with Sandy hair and blue eyes, and Robert Hardy, a rugged man from the coal mines of the Appalachian coal region, were seen by the enemy soldiers and started taking fire, which pinned them down behind a fallen tree. While the enemy concentrated on their friends Bill and Doug Scott, a smaller man from California with brown hair and green eyes, quickly moved on the bunker and tossed in a grenade and took out three of the seven, the other four were stunned by the explosion but otherwise unhurt. Bill and Doug jumped the four remaining soldiers and while Doug was fighting one, Bill took out the first with a rifle butt to the chin, the second and third soldier jumped Bill from behind in an attempt to take him down. Bill tossed one off his right shoulder and across the bunker, the other one he slammed up against the side of the hill knocking him off his back. As Bill spun around he landed a right cross to the man’s chin while the second man once again engaged Bill from the side, tackling him and taking him down. It was at that point that Bill’s Ranger hand to hand combat training took over and as he pulled his bayonet from his back pack he pushed the man off and leaped on his chest driving the bayonet deep into his chest slowly killing him as the knife went through his heart. Bill stood and turned around and found the third man back on his feet again and aiming his hand gun at Bill ready to shoot when suddenly from the rim of the bunker a shot rang out and the soldier dropped dead. Not missing a beat Bill picked up the soldier that Doug had been wrestling with and threw him against the side of the bunker and ran his bayonet through his neck and as he pulled it out he sliceding to the right and cut the man’s throat open.
By Bill Chamberlain4 years ago in Families
The Locked Door
My sister and I had great fun on the mountain curves. She and I were sitting in the backseat of the old baby blue 1951 Ford. When the road curved to the right, the two of us slid over to Betsy's door. When it went to the left, we laughed and slid all the way over to my door. Mom and Dad sang and laughed as we drove along. It's no wonder we were all happy, this was our first family vacation. Aunt Ethel had let us use her mountain cabin for a week. It was in a place called Fiddletown. Just the name made me laugh. I knew we were going to have a great time.
By anita tosh4 years ago in Families
On The Little House Under the Maples
The typewritten font makes the revelation of an ancestor cursed with chronic diarrhea a deeper surprise than it might have been on its own. It’s a little before midnight when you read it and your laughter bursts out before it can be stopped. This is the first page, and it only took two-hundred words for the narrative of your family history to get to uncontrollable bowel movements that resulted in a discharge from the Union Army. It’s later noted to be lucky, as he’d been promised for Gettysburg.
By Sarah Penney4 years ago in Families
Save the Bath For Last
His best friends were told he never learned to swim because his mother tried to drown him; not as an infant, not due to post-partum depression (this was the 40’s and 50’s, that diagnosis did not exist), not due to hatred, but due to numb hands from the 6 other baths she had to dole out every other night, causing her to not know her own strength, or self-worth.
By chris miskec-rhymes-with-whiskey4 years ago in Families
Homer, a Sparrow
Homer, A Sparrow She was asleep, warm and safe, dimly aware of the wind howling and the nest moving. The drumming of her mother's heartbeat and the warmth of her body soothed the little one, snuggled in her mother's feathers. She had no feathers of her own yet. One of her brothers squirmed a bit. The storm was far away from her protected world of feathers and nest.
By Rhema Sayers4 years ago in Families
Birds Of The Same Feather: 1-3
Birds of The Same Feather - A book written for every age! Chapter One The beautiful music of Les Paul Roque song “Sunday Morning 23” is heard throughout the lands. As the world we once knew changed due to man’s destructive nature, all living creatures from every animal kingdom became uprooted from their natural habitat and migrated to foreign lands for safety and survival. Heavy rains, violent storms, floods and many earthquakes overtook the earth resulting in land erosion, water depletion, land partitions as well as new land creation.
By Alicia Royale4 years ago in Families
