Sarah O'Connor

Another prompt, oh my! Well it is a daily challenge so it isn’t that shocking. Today’s theme is Candle so that’s just what I wrote about.

My dad doesn’t like candles. He has this fear of fire and worried that we would forget to blow out the candle and then our house would burn down, or that even if we did blow out the candle it would still be too hot and burn the house down anyways. It was almost five years ago when my sister and I lamented this to our mom, about how we’d go to Bath & Body Works in the mall and smell so many good scents that we wanted to bring home. Continue reading

Today’s theme is jack-o-lantern so I decided to get all nostalgic about pumpkins, as one does during Fall.

When I was little I used to always carve a pumpkin for Halloween with my dad and sister. Well I didn’t do so much of the carving, didn’t even draw the face on the pumpkin. My dad would do that, asking what kind of eyes we wanted, if we wanted it to be scary or funny, how many teeth we wanted the pumpkin to have. Drawing on a pumpkin is hard so my sister and I would draw a sketch of our pumpkin face on a paper and he’d copy it onto the pumpkin and carve out it’s face. I remember thinking about how amazing it was that my dad was strong enough to carve the pumpkin and wondered if I’d ever be strong enough to do the same. Continue reading

Today’s prompt was a difficult one because I know very little about forest spirits, but here’s something anyways!

I don’t know a lot about forest spirits. They weren’t the type of magic I was interested in as a kid, am interested in now. The only forest spirits I was aware of were the dryads and nymphs in Greek mythology, whose stories were still interesting but nothing compared to the gods, goddesses, and demi-gods whose stories I devoured. Still, it was a nice thought though and I understand why people like the idea of forest spirits. To sit in a tree with flowers and leaves in your hair, to make the flowers bloom, to give things life. Continue reading

A weird little ramble about why I love lime soda. Enjoy!

Today’s post is easy, I like lime soda because it always makes me feel like I’m drinking a magic potion. Continue reading