The Marsh of the Little Blue Heron

By Anne Spackman

The short story of nature-loving John, a young teenage photographer, who encounters a little blue heron in a Florida wetland marsh. Soon after, John is in a car accident, and can't return to the marsh for a while....

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anne Spackman
• Release date: May 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310453953

Anne Spackman

At the current time, I am a gymnastics coach and a writer of many types of fiction. I have a BA in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. I am half-American and half-Scottish. I spent many summers as a girl in Scotland, and moved to England at 16 where I finished high school at Bedford High School in Bedfordshire, England.My first novel, The Last Immortal, I wrote more than twenty years ago. It is the first of six novels in the "Seeds of a Fallen Empire" series that was finished in 2000 and finally published as an e-book in 2010-2014 after many years of trying the traditional publishing route. I have also written one fantasy novel, Curse of the Dragon Kings, which was written in 1997 and published as an e-book in 2010.As a writer, I started out writing mostly science fiction and also fantasy as I so much loved J.R.R. Tolkien as a girl. I also really enjoy historical fiction set in the days of ancient Rome, (and Egypt.) I am now writing more romantic and historical short stories.

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The Marsh of the Little Blue Heron

By Anne Spackman

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Copyright 2015 by Anne Spackman

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The sun rose one morning in a gray sky over one of the marshy wetlands of Florida. Rain fell softly over the marsh, rippling the surface of the water, as one resident, a little blue heron bird, was wading slowly and deliberately through the marsh in search of food. Being long-legged, the blue heron easily traversed the low waters of the marsh. It would stop every now and again to dive its head down to the water to try to snatch up a frog or a small fish.

Another bird soared overhead and let out a call—a small songbird, not at all like the stately