Blue Ghosts (full text available for purchase) by christwriter, literature
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Blue Ghosts (full text available for purchase)
Blue Ghosts
Part One: Raziel
Dinner with an Elf. You don’t do that every day. Casey Winter straightened the skirt on her very best dress, which was about six hundred dollars too cheap for her surroundings, and tried not to worry about what her dinner date would wear. Corpus Christi, Texas, wasn’t exactly a cultural hub, but it did have several nice restaurants. Marco Creed, the elf in question, had invited her to the nicest.
The Republic of Texas. By God, was it ritzy. Dark wood and burgundy trim glowed under expensive lighting. Cut crystal glasses full of aged scotch sat at elbows. Lush greenery curled around brass fixtures. W
Bernard McPorpington never expected to be famous. If he had expected to be famous, he wouldn't have expected it to be for the lemonade tree. It was the latest in a long line of Bernard's hybrid garden projects. Not one of his favorites, though he was still fond of it. Not as good as the strawberry bananas, of course. He did love his strawberry bananas. The hardiness of a strawberry plant in the durability of the banana's fruit, with a juicy softness and the perfect mingling of the two flavors. One of his better crossbreeds.
The hybrid garden had been conceived when Bernard was in second grade. His teacher, whose name he had forgotten somewhe