winter – Slanted Spines

N.T. Ed and Margaret Decide to Have an Autumn Party

September 27, 2019September 26, 2019Posted in Comics, Tales of N.T. EdTagged autumn, black and white, comic, creative writing, fall, fiction, Halloween, season, short story, skeleton, Story, winter, winter blues2 Comments

N.T. Ed and Margaret Decide to Have an Autumn Party

Ned Theodore Ed, skull in the palm of his bony hand, looked out the window at the darkening early evening, and sighed.

Margaret noticed N.T. Ed’s shoulders silently heave and slump (for this was the way N.T. “sighed”) and paused her knitting. “What was that for?” Margaret asked, tilting her head and looking at N.T. over the top of her wire-rim reading glasses. They were sitting in Margaret’s living room, N.T. on the couch, and Margaret in her recliner; the lamps on her end tables produced an orangey, cozy hue as the light flickered off her hardwood interior.

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N.T. Ed Finds his Voice

November 30, 2018January 24, 2019Posted in Tales of N.T. EdTagged childrens story, Christmas, encouragement, funny, humor, Self-Help, short story, singing, Story, voice, winter, writing7 Comments

Once upon a wintertime many years ago in Spinesville, when my dearest skeleton friend Ned Theodore Ed was just a young set of bones in fifth grade, Spinesville Elementary School had just returned from Thanksgiving break. All the kids in N.T.’s class were pretty bummed to go back to school, except N.T. had spent the entire Thanksgiving break reading in his room, and so he was very excited to be back at school so he could talk about his book with his favorite teacher, Ms. DeMarcio. Continue reading “N.T. Ed Finds his Voice” →