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Short Stories
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"If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid." - Eddie Izzard
That is with the possible exception if you saw me ski before 2004. I
come to this sport of skiing a little like an elephant on skis and I
guess I don't know you well enough to tell you whether I've never been
on acid.
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Short Stories
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Chapter 1 - The Name of the Beast
That Damn Motoski
was aptly named. She was a hellish orange color; an orange so
intense to the eye that one always paused upon seeing her to reflect
on hell. As in, “How in the Hell did they come up with that damned
orange color?” Hence the Damn portion of the name.
Motoski is more
commonsense. She had a motor (actually an engine because as my dad
the engineer often corrected, “Motors are electric; engines run on
fuel.”) And, she had skis. Well, she had two banana-shaped lumps
of metal with handles welded at the tip. In retrospect, those
handles should have provided a clue.
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Short Stories
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If you (or anyone you know) are a writer, you won't want to miss
this amazing opportunity. The First Annual Eden Writers' Fall
Conference is being held at Red Moose Lodge in Ogden Valley October
19-20. We have an impressive line-up of presenters, including Hollywood
screenwriter David Sheffield, NY literary agents Christina Hogrebe and
Kate Schafer, Harpercollins editor Katherine Nintzel, Kay Lockner of
AuthorMBA, and Louise Knot Ahern of The Working Writer. Additionally,
we have many fun "extras" that you won't find at larger conferences,
such as Yoga for Writers, presented by local yoga diva Rebecca Fox,
Spooky Stories presented by The Eden Writers Circle, a raffle to win a
critique by New York Times bestseller Susan Squires, a short story
contest, a Novice Writers Retreat, loads of exciting give-aways donated
by famous authors, wonderful local food, etc.
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Short Stories
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Austin Bulloch (sophomore at Weber High School) entered the "Mountain Whispers of the Past" essay
contest in the Spring 2006 competition, which was sponsored by a local
chapter of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers. Here is his first place
research-backed essay on one of the valley's primary historical
events: The rise and fall of Swineville.
There is a legend that is so amazing, and yet only few people know
the real story. That story is the tale of a town once known as
Swineville. This place with the strange name is Ogden Valley’s own
Atlantis, for it exists underwater at the bottom of Pineview Reservoir.
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Poetry
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Aiden Massey wrote this beautiful poem for his mom and then won an award as a young writer from the Utah State Poetry Society.
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Cranes Exquisite Cranes
in their white
robes
as they decend
into the pond
as silently as a shadow
Finally they feel
the moist mud as they lay their
feet in the water nothing
stirs in the snow filled
night
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