https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories encapsulating a moment, place, action or person en-us 2016-07-12 13:48:01 UTC 2025-11-07 22:27:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Moderncam.png McBudd https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278642 It was a small dint. 
Narrow street. 
Low speed.
One driver got out. 
So did the other. 
Both men much larger than their compact cars should comfortably hold. 
One man was pumping his fists. And we all saw the knuckledusters at the same time.]]> 2016-07-12 14:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278642 McBudd https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278735 We sat atop an ochre throne. Her volcanic shoulders slid into a cobalt abyss. An abyss that produced no sand, only sea softened fragments of lives long gone.]]> 2016-07-12 14:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278735 McBudd https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278764 I had pizza for dinner, minties all afternoon and chocolate after pizza. Obesity reigns supreme]]> 2016-07-12 14:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278764 McBudd https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278863 The long bushy branch reaches out like the hairy claw. The weight of the snow causes its pine needle arms to droop. The snow sits like the ridge line of the Alpes. Each branch a peaceful snow-covered blanket.]]> 2016-07-12 14:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278863 McBudd https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278881 Under the soil of ash. Like rings of a tree trunk.
2000 layers. 2000 years. 
All revealed as they dug the city out. And removed the evidence of lives lived on top of Pompeii since it was hidden. 
What other layers could be found underneath Pompeii if the digging continued?]]> 2016-07-12 14:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/McBudd/tinystories/wish/116278881