Jerrel Swingle
Jerrel (Jerry) Swingle - retired art teacher - 1 ea. - High mileage, slightly worn. Happily married forty plus years. Began writing to take up the creative slack. Enjoys writing short stories, flash fiction, humor, fantasy, parody, satire, poetry when feeling great - essays and opinion pieces when grumpy. Work has appeared in Good Old Days, The Storyteller, America's Funniest Humor, Sweetgum Notes, Echoes of the Ozarks, Well-Versed, Missouri Teachers Write, Cuivre River Anthology. Enjoys entering contests, placing in several. Little remuneration, but great satisfaction. Continues to work at learning the craft while enjoying life in general.
Mystic Crystal, Ancient Gold
Issue #3 (May 2008)
She loved the smell of the ocean, loved to close her eyes and inhale the scent of faraway. She enjoyed the cries of the seagulls. Her heart thrilled to the sound of the breakers crashing on the reefs guarding the lagoon, and the feel of the ocean’s breath on her face.
Today she stopped, shaded her eyes, and enjoyed the visual poetry of white foam and blue-green water, of a sky turning from blue to pink until she noticed something dark bobbing on the waves, still too far away to tell what it was. Ana stood and watched as each surge of the tide brought the object closer.
