The Beginning

Hi, my name is Tara Fox Hall. My writing credits include nonfiction short stories (usually recounting a true tale of saving wildlife--from snakes to moths to birds--from death or harm), flash, short and novella-length horror stories, and contemporary and historical paranormal romance. I also coauthored the essay “The Allure of the Serial Killer,” published in Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). My first E-Book, Surrender to Me, was published in September 2011, with a second unrealted work, Return to Me, published in October 2011.
My website is www.tarafoxhall.com.

But you didn't come here to see what you could have found a dozen different places on the web. You came here for something new and exciting. And I don't aim to disappoint.

So here is a poem I hope you will find uplifting, even if you've had the day from hell:

HOPEFUL ANTICIPATION

The bright lamps have been turned low.
The conversation is light with the spice of alcohol.
Youthful adventures revisited, old movies remembered.
The wineglass is half-full.
Dinner progresses unhurried, the happiness of dessert to follow.
Music is at the corners, flavoring but not overpowering,
Peaceful, acoustic songs of generations past.
The sun has set, the many-colored afterglow lighting the sky.
A solitary bat flits by.
The mood is hopeful anticipation,
For the best is still to come.