Here's my story I will share with you guys.
When I was a child, my father used to drive me out to the Appalachians each year to vacation in his second home. We often would stop at my step-mother's great aunt's house on the return trip in Asheville. This was the mid-1980s.
Her property was atop one of the mountains that surround the city. I used to love playing in her basement where her late husband had all his old tools and various workrooms. I really loved this lady. Next to the home was the foundation of an older house that had since been demolished. All that remained was the old stone wall surrounding the foundation and a raised area. Her husband had many years before planted cherry trees in the middle of it as a kind of orchard.
One day I was playing on this foundation while the adults where in the house talking about things. I was just walking around one of the bigger cherry trees, and this orb of light drifted up to me. There definitely were lightning bugs all over the...
Will-o'-the-wisp
When I was a child, my father used to drive me out to the Appalachians each year to vacation in his second home. We often would stop at my step-mother's great aunt's house on the return trip in Asheville. This was the mid-1980s.
Her property was atop one of the mountains that surround the city. I used to love playing in her basement where her late husband had all his old tools and various workrooms. I really loved this lady. Next to the home was the foundation of an older house that had since been demolished. All that remained was the old stone wall surrounding the foundation and a raised area. Her husband had many years before planted cherry trees in the middle of it as a kind of orchard.
One day I was playing on this foundation while the adults where in the house talking about things. I was just walking around one of the bigger cherry trees, and this orb of light drifted up to me. There definitely were lightning bugs all over the...
Will-o'-the-wisp