The mountains’ song had always been a soft buzz in the background.
“Come here” was a melody without sound.
Eventually I slipped as the gang of peaks encircled me.
“Give me your soul,” they boomed.
I fought, briefly. Futile.
Dropping my pack, I stepped off the trail,
and joined them.
Tom lives with his young family in New Zealand and works as a primary school teacher. He has had a passion for stories ever since learning to walk and is currently working on a series of fantasy novels.
Its arrival is fireworks—anticipated, unexpected, impossible to ignore. Trepidation collapses into joy. In an instant, life fractures and reforms. The warning “your life will never be the same” ceases to be prophecy, becoming fact, as the bundle in your arms wraps its small hand around your finger for the first time.
Tom lives with his young family in New Zealand and works as a primary school teacher. He has had a passion for stories ever since learning to walk and is currently working on a series of fantasy novels.
Excitedly, young Aisha skipped from the packed boat to the beach. Her parents’ faces lifted slightly upon seeing her joy. The sun painted the summer holiday she’d always dreamed of right onto the sand. Her parents exchanged a look laden with relief at seeing the beach empty of border police.
Tom lives with his young family in New Zealand and works as a primary school teacher. He has had a passion for stories ever since learning to walk and is currently working on a series of fantasy novels.