Psychological Suspense, Travel, Romance, Erotica, Paranormal - Stories, Poetry, and Excerpts
Read never before published stories and excerpts from J. Sharland’s novels including the fact-based-fiction suspense travel thriller Under the Umbrella of Paradise, the paranormal psychological suspense novel Shadows of the Ripples, and the suspense travel horror novel The RV Park.
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What’s with Mother Nature?
Mother Nature has many forms of paybacks,
It's not just twisters or hurricanes.
There're volcanos, earthquakes, and big damned cracks,
Does she want no one to remain?
The Saga of a Spider’s Web
Some friends walked by our garden gate and stopped to exclaim,
“Come look at this spider’s web!” Their tone had no disdain.
A fascinating spectacle, of that, there was no doubt.
The spider had made a great big edge and began to fill it out.
Mother Nature’s Big Event: The Birth of Spring
Nobody, to my knowledge, ever said that birth of anything was easy: birth of a nation, birth of spring, childbirth, for example, and so, from the weather we’d been seeing on the days prior to the first day of spring this year, it was no surprise that this birth was to be a difficult one.
The Garden of Earthly Surprises
Alligator species, we were eager to see.
Would they be hidden,
Or would they just be
Out in the open, in water or on grass
A good chance they’d not be just scratching their ass.