Sunset-Valley

I woke up the next morning to the laughter of my sister and the smell of coffee and bacon. I rolled over onto my stomach to look at the window and try to see if Anna was laughing at a fresh snowfall. And sure enough it had snowed over night and everything was covered in the fluffy white stuff as far as my eyes could see. I couldn’t help but smile as I climbed out of my bed and went to the window stare at the first snowfall of the season. I suddenly found myself feeling like a little kid and I skipped to my bathroom and brushed my hair and teeth and then washed my face. I looked at my reflection and smiled. “Well Emily you are a gr

I stared dumbly at the piece of paper that hung limply from my hands. “Emily? Are you alright? Emily?” Abby’s voice finally shook me from my shock and I turned to look at her. “I’m…I’m adopted.” I mumbled as I look at the maid. I had no other words to say and no other idea of what to say. All I’d ever known was Clifton, Virginia and my family here. I’d watched my mom give birth to my sister and had always been loved. I had no reason to suspect that my parents weren’t the one’s that had made me. I had always felt like I belonged here and was supposed to be here. I then lo

 It was day three hundred and forty eight and I found myself staring at the clock on the wall, it’s bright orange background glared at me like my fifth period teacher had and the oddly shaped fuchsia hands were moving as if stuck in the molasses that my dad liked to cover everything on his breakfast plate in and then offer to do the same thing to my blueberry muffin. I’d stare at him and then shake my head “No thanks.” I’d tell him and then I’d save my morning food from the sticky overly sweet substance like I wished I could do to the hands on the clock, but there was nothing I could do and I knew it so I h

Chapter 1 4/6/1532 I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I knew I had to get free. It was dark and getting overly warm in here. I had just woken up from my long nap and now I had to get free.  There was space in here so I could have stayed, but my stomach was starting to grumble. My legs kicked out and I flung my head up. The sharp point on the tip of my nose made contact with the wall of my prison and a tiny web of cracks began to form.  A moments rest and I repeated the action and was rewarded with more cracks and a rumble from somewhere outside my prison. The rumble had happened a few times before, but this time it was scarier and com

Chapter 1 4/6/1532     The white head seemed to perk up from some sound that only it could hear, maybe it was some bug or some creature in the field below, but whatever it was it now had the attention of the large dragoness and she turned her head with her neck following to peer behind her and look at the cause of the sound. Her eyes relaxed the sight of 4 eggs nestled in a small nest of sand. They were as big as her lower front leg, but one was no bigger in half her paw. But it seemed the sounds were coming from it. The females stood briefly and turned her whole body around to face the clutch. It was time; she’d waited twelve months