By Marcia Lee, Managing Editor, MyhometownBronxville 

May 18, 2016:  Is there a wild moment in your life or a very heartwarming one that you might want to share with the rest of us? 

Bronxville resident Schatze Thorp will be editing a new column in MyhometownBronxville that invites you to submit a story about one of these two topics:  most wild or most heartwarming moment. 

The story may be a full article of not over 800 words or just a few sentences. It must be true, of course, and it must be something that you, not someone else, actually experienced, not just heard about.  

Here’s my quick stab at it:  When I was snorkeling off a beach in Bali, looking for rare shells, the tide suddenly started going out on me—not a gradual shift but a rush like nothing I had ever experienced. Suddenly the water below me became quite shallow and, as I looked through my snorkel mask, a large bed of sea urchins appeared directly below me. There was no way to get to the beach without stepping on the spiky critters. Are sea urchins poisonous, I asked myself, as my body drew closer to their level at the bottom of the ocean. Panic set in. Never mind the pricks to my feet if I had to walk on them. If those spines contained venom, I was done for. Just when my face was almost flush against them forcing me to stand upright, the bed of sea urchins disappeared. In its place was wonderful, fine, beautifully tan sand. It took me more than an hour after I waded to shore to lose the feeling of terror that pervaded my nervous system. 

There you have it. A short story of a wild moment in my life. I’m sure you can do better. Give it a try. 

Email your articles to Schatze Thorp at  CLOAKING  and to me at  CLOAKING . She’ll get back to you in reasonably good time, and, of course, we reserve the right to edit the submission, and we cannot guarantee that each story will be published. When your story is published, your name will appear as author of the story. Do discipline yourself to 800 words and please do not include profanity. 

Pictured here:  Schatze Thorp, the editor of the new "Most Wild or Most Heartwarming” column. 

Photo by A. Warner