Judy's Journal: Winter 2020: Judy's Journal, #2
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Judy's Journal, Volume 2, Winter 2020...Collected Short Stories...Five short stories from January 2020. Aeris Awakens; The Tank; The Dragon's Lair; Siren Bound; Seeking Garille
Judy Lunsford
Born and raised in California, Judy now lives in Arizona with her husband and Giant Schnoodle. Judy writes with dyslexia and a chronic illness & is a breast cancer survivor. She writes mostly fantasy, but delves into suspense, horror, romance, and poetry. She has written books and short stories for all ages. You can find her books and short stories at your favorite online retailers.
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Judy's Journal - Judy Lunsford
Introduction
Welcome to the second volume of Judy’s Journal short stories. This collection is all of the stories that were worked on through winter of 2019-2020, and were finished somewhere in January of 2020.
During the winter of 2019-2020, I was refocusing on getting writing done every day. It has been a sort of healing process for me as well as some of my stories.
Aeris Awakens is in honor of my late older brother. The character name is borrowed from some of his role-playing games. He was always very supportive of my writing, so I wanted a way to let a small piece of him live on through my words.
The Tank and The Dragon’s Lair are just random stories that came to me from snippets of my past, fictionalized into what is written here.
Siren Bound is the result of a short story challenge from my husband. It was fun to write and I completed the challenge. ;)
Seeking Garille is a story that has been a very long time coming. Garille and the characters surrounding him, including the Crystal Tower and all of the lineage it entails, have been with me since the 1980’s. The story has been brewing since I was in high school. I have finally scrapped all of the old version and I am starting fresh and new. I had always wondered how I would get this whole fantasy world down on paper properly, and I discovered that I needed to get rid of the high school voice and give the entire story a revamp. Seeking Garille is the first story from the new emergence of the Crystal Tower saga. Hopefully there will be many more to come.
Thank you for picking this volume up. I hope you enjoy the very different worlds contained within.
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Judy Lunsford
San Tan Valley, AZ
January 27, 2020
Aeris Awakens
Elijah muttered to himself as he slammed his shovel into the loosely packed snow over and over again.
He hated snow. The white featureless landscape it created. The frigid cold made his fingers hurt, even through the warm black gloves his mom had sent him last Christmas.
He missed living where there was no snow in the winter. Where it was warmer and there was no shoveling every morning for months.
He shoveled pile after pile out of the driveway. His back had started to hurt and his arms already ached after only a few minutes. He scanned the driveway and the distance to the street.
Laziness won out and he gave up. He’d rather walk to work than continue shoveling. Elijah convinced himself that it wasn’t that far.
He tossed the shovel back into the garage where it landed in the corner with a satisfying clang and fell to the floor, taking a rake and a broom with it. The clatter was loud and it probably could be heard by the neighbors. He didn’t care. It was his garage. He could do what he wanted.
He stomped the snow off himself and went back inside to change into work clothes and dry boots.
Eli stood at his closet and looked at the contents. He grabbed the blue collared polo shirt required for his job and pulled it on. He kept his work shirts next to his cosplay garb. Next to what he’d rather be wearing.
The green leather armor hung unfinished in the closet and made him drift off into another world for a moment. A world where he was a hunter. A warrior. An elf ranger that had adventures and made his own decisions. Not someone who had to work in an electronics store to pay his half of the rent on a crappy apartment in a small tourist town.
Eli finished dressing and headed outside. Back into the frigid cold and the blinding white snow.
He trudged through the snow to work. He trudged through his day at the retail electronics store where he catered to snotty entitled tourists who had lost their phone chargers and headphones. His mind wandered throughout the day back to what he wished he could be. A warrior, free to roam the countryside. Saving village people from monsters and maidens from villains.
At the end of the day, he set back out into the freezing cold to trudge his way back home. Just so he could do it all again tomorrow.
He decided to take a shortcut through the woods that led to a clearing behind his apartment building. The risk of running into a bear was low this time of year. But he could let his mind wander again, to the life he wished he had.
He listened to the crunch of the snow beneath his boots with each step and breathed in the smell of the snow. People had argued with him that snow was just frozen water, and it didn’t have a scent and that what he was smelling was a lack of smells, dampened by the snow itself.
But Eli disagreed. It smelled like calm.
The one time he liked the snow was at night. When it was quiet. When he didn’t have to go to work. When he could enjoy the fact that he didn’t have to be anywhere or do anything.
He crunched along in the moonlight, thinking about the fact that all he had to do tonight was make some dinner and play video games for the rest of the night. The only place he could live his dream.
He had leftover pizza waiting for him in the fridge and a scheduled game online with his friends. His 80th level character was waiting, patiently, for him to come back. His idea of a perfect evening.
As he went deeper into the woods, he saw something flicker past in his peripheral vision.
He turned to see a shadow ducking behind some trees a bit in the distance.
Hello?
he stopped and called out to the shadow.
Everything stayed quiet. Almost too quiet. Eli couldn’t remember the forest ever being so still before, even on a winter night.
Is someone there?
Eli took a few steps toward the direction he thought the shadow had gone.
There was a clearing in the treetops, just large enough so he could see past the tall pines and view the sky above him. He looked up into the full moonlight and saw