Valkyrie Misadventures: An Unlikely Friendship, Part One & Two
Its been way too long since I've worked on any of my main writing projects. I kinda missed them. But today I randomly started working on a small piece that I initially started writing three years ago and haven't touched in eight months. Valkyrie Misadventures is a collection of short stories about a young introverted "PK" (aka preacher's kid) named Valerie Clarke, as she learns to make friends and they navigate life together, having adventures, getting into mischief, learning valuable life lessons, and getting to know their Heavenly Abba better. And this is one of the first stories, where Valerie, in first grade, makes her first friend. Some helpful things to note: The church is non-denominational, but Valerie's parents come from a Quaker lineage, and so when her dad first took the pulpit, he encouraged the use of numbers for the days of the week instead of the names of Roman deities. As such, Sunday is "First Day", Sunday School is "Church Scho...