Heather Dotson
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Musical Roller Coaster
My parents always had music playing in the car and being a military family, we were in the car a lot. We would travel long distances across the USA to visit family from whatever part of the country the military dropped us in for the next few years. The radio was always playing, and we listened to a wide variety of music from the 60s through whatever was current at the time. Many songs I listened to then are still on rotation today. The songs on this playlist mean a lot to me for different reasons. Some are empowering or happy and some are sad, others are in between. Sometimes a song strikes a chord (pun intended) with a person, and they never really know why. The first song that I fell in love with was one of the latter. I was too young to understand the song, but I imagine the combination of the jangly guitars and the sound of Susanna Hoffs’ voice just made me happy.
By Heather Dotson11 months ago in Beat
Drama in the Skies
It was a perfect day. The sun was shining and filled with white puffy clouds. It was going to be a great day. That’s what I told myself when I left the house. I reminded myself, happiness is a choice, and it will be a great day. I’m not anxious about flying; I feel oddly calm tens of thousands of feet above everything. But I am anxious about pretty much everything else. Everything normal people are not anxious about, so I have conversations with myself.
By Heather Dotsonabout a year ago in Fiction
The Druid and the Dragon
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. Torinville was a simple place, a calm place once. Torinville was founded by the children of Torin McKay in the days of the druids. Legend has it that the clan McKay settled here after Teague, second son of Torin, fell in love with a druid girl. The druids did not agree with their kind mixing with non-druids. It didn’t help that the druid girl was a princess and already promised to another druid clan. When her parents found out about Princess Aine’s relationship with Teague McKay, they declared war on the McKay clan and drove them out of the highlands. The McKay clan eventually settled in a valley land they called Torinville in Ireland. Now you might be wondering what happened to Princess Aine after the Teague and the McKay clan left the highlands for the valley across the ocean.
By Heather Dotson2 years ago in Fiction
Death By Chocolate
Death by chocolate, what a sweet release from the agony of living. The table was set with the prettiest cloth table covering and a trio of candles in the middle. She placed the chocolate cake on the fine china and poured a glass of red wine to go with it. It will be better soon, Kaley told herself, she would be with him and feel nothing but happiness. She had spent the last few years trying to make life work without him, he was gone and there was nothing she could do to change that. Kaley felt broken and in a pain she tried to hide from everyone else. She could never explain just how lost she felt, they would never understand. Good things happened in her life and she wanted them, but the loss held her back. She could never get through it and carrying a ghost with you through life was a pain she could no longer take. Her brother’s ghost would always be with her as she moved through the years of her life. Every good thing happened continued to remind her of the loss. He was not there and he never would be. All the major events in her life, he would not be a part of. This loss, his ghost, tainted every bit of happiness she felt.
By Heather Dotson3 years ago in Fiction