Stories tagged “parade”
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The Journey
We head out. Our group could always use more and better weaponry, and maybe we can find something nourishing, or at least edible. Every dozen or so feet, we stop and listen. The noise we hear is neither near nor far, but it’s too close for my lik...
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“Won’t you follow me down to the Rose Parade?”
Her expectant face shown a bright light on the correct answer but I couldn’t bring myself to rise. How could I have gotten here; to the point where they all said I took this city for granted? It wasn’t true. I only eschewed the parade due to the fa...
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Parade From Afar
The parade, seen from the 70 something floor of an office building appears as ants, one following another, scrolling through a maze of concrete walls and streets below. Wherever they crawl the area erupts with color as people crowd the street and their...