A Garden for Cornelius

By George H. Clowers, Jr.

Summer whispers of warm restraint, color the movements we choose to make. See how the greens and yellows stand back, until the love is vivid and full. Sometimes we must wait for the right one!

• Language: English
• Publisher: George H. Clowers, Jr.
• Release date: May 13, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224040902

George H. Clowers, Jr.

Retired substance use disorder counselor.

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2018 by George H. Clowers, Jr.

All Rights Reserved.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

The lagoon was home to at least three alligators. One of ours, about three to four feet in length, would rest on the hill just below the putting green across from our villa, mouth open, for an hour or so at times. The larger one stayed in the water and would slowly drift around, and you could see its head as it moved under the walk bridge. It was a peaceful area, with Spanish moss hanging from the hundred years old oak trees, and the morning limb shadows adding a mystical flair, no matter the season.

Cornelius loved this place and would look out the three-foot-wide windows while sitting at his desk, counting small rocks fingered from a pouch, spreading them on the surface, then putting them back before going out to walk. He would do this each morning.

Cornelius Jenkins, IQ 137, had been a professor of philosophy for twenty-nine years, and retired to here last August when