He adored the plains. They boasted a beauty, and a savagery, all their own, alive with raucous trumpeting and haunting laughter.
The roar was his favourite, bar none. Unmistakable and unique, its sound carried for miles. Its meaning was abundantly clear to all who heard it: hail to the king.
Tony Awori is studying in Kuala Lumpur, and plays with a band in his spare time (when he isn’t writing).
Bill and Martha: more than friends, less than lovers.
Born to different parents, he was a him, and she wasn’t. For now, just dinner companions.
When a hunter appeared, lost, alone, and out of ammunition, they looked at each other, two hungry lions with the same thought:
Dinner for two!
John Fowler served twenty years in the US Air Force before retiring and starting a second career in the IT field. He is also a Lay Pastor serving a small church near his home in Texas. His hobbies include reading, golfing, and writing.