Sparkly Cakes & Cinnamon Swirls: Stories & Poems

By Brenden Haukos

“Sparkly Cakes & Cinnamon Swirls” is a book of short stories and poems that cover a range of images from angels to fairies to forests to fire-sides. The author dares you to read every word within and weep!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Apr 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982266172

Brenden Haukos

Brenden Haukos lives in central Minnesota. He is the author of “The Power of Positive Imagery with the Labyrinth.” Anyone who wishes to contact the author may do so at [e-mail].

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Sparkly Cakes &

Cinnamon Swirls

stories & poems

BRENDEN HAUKOS

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Copyright © 2021 Brenden Phillip Haukos.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-6616-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-6617-2 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 02/07/2023

Contents

Frog Spiritses

Sparkly Cakes and Cinnamon Swirls

Hummingbirds

The Mighty Oak

Frozen Verse

Rapier

Star Pig !!

The City

Osprey

Mad Hatter

Swans Silent Swam

A Witch’s Rattle

The Magician

The Fairy

Weeping Willow

Acrostic

Miss S.

Urban Tulips

To Hathor

Osiris Entombed

Life and Death in the Early Times of the Hill Country named Virtigia

Second Chronicle

Third Chronicle

Fourth Chronicle

Fifth Chronicle

Sixth Chronicle

Seventh Chronicle

Eighth Chronicle

Ninth Chronicle

Tenth Chronicle

A Fragment of Enschantara’s Cosmogony

Fourteenth Chronicle

Fragments from the Journal of Yep during the times of their wandering

Elegy for a Life in Lonely Places

The Wild Blue Yonder

For the efflorescences and the snowclusterflakes…

Brain Fart: A Virtigia Story

For Our Memory:

Ode to the Fighting Spirit

Spirits Swirling

Spingle and Span

The End

May you be a Magical Mirror:

Whatever the world sends you,

May you always reflect back love~

This book is

dedicated in admiration to Valentina Shevchenko.

Frog Spiritses

Let me tell you a story, dear listener. As we sit by the fire-side, I will listenly tell you. It means a dear lot to me.

I hope you like it, listener. But don’t listen too closely please.

I wouldn’t want to interrupt your daydreaming.

I love meeting you sparkly places, dear listener, in the realms of frog spirits. Well it’s not really frog spiritses realms, but the frog spirits are there too.

I assure you, dear listener, they’ll be buzzing for you.

Sparkly Cakes and

Cinnamon Swirls

The Sparkle Fairy was getting sadder and sadder every day. All the cinnamon swirls she had stored for her friend the White Witch had grown stale over the days of his absence, and since the White Witch was not one to lie, especially to his bestest, the Sparkle Fairy if she had any hope left was now holding onto the frayed hem of it.

The nearby squirrels could sense her dismay, so they tried sitting still as they could, when they really wanted to race spirals up the trunks of birches