An excerpt from my latest book, The Mumachen, Book One of the Spooky Shelly Tales series:

…I would stay there for hours, just behind our maid’s quarters, building little houses and bridges. If a rock looked like an animal to me, I was fascinated. One time I had been drawn to the pepper plants that our maid was growing because the buds looked like little doves. I had broken some off for one of my village creations and then with one rub of the eye, I was in serious pain. My eyes were on fire! That’s what happens when you get Thai hot peppers in your eyes…