Spencer Barker : Writing

A Loathful Start/A Lasting Love

A Loathful Start/A Lasting Love

A Story by Spencer Barker


This is my own literacy narrative. Starting with myself, a young boy loathing of the nefarious nature of reading, and ending with true love.
The Dark Man's Teeth

The Dark Man's Teeth

A Poem by Spencer Barker


A brandishing of sheath,a cascading of teeth,do the blades come thrashing down.A jump and safe again,but for now the attack comes,swiftly.I see in his..
Iris Song

Iris Song

A Poem by Spencer Barker


A fluttering of wings, oh how they shine.Her eyes, approaching the light that now streams,a river mounting its torrent.A bluish of glean, how ever so ..
A Last Sugaring

A Last Sugaring

A Poem by Spencer Barker


A clinging of sugared dusting,the glittered craft of frost.The quiet clatter of deathly fallen,where it has been lost.It falls away, giving in its str..
The Bookseller's Stories (Or, "The Old Man")

The Bookseller's Stories (Or, "The Old Man")

A Story by Spencer Barker


Next the shelves.Two dozen, maybe three spaced upon the underground chamber. Gregory tried to count; one, two, three. No hundreds upon thousands of bo..
A Pencil Stroke

A Pencil Stroke

A Poem by Spencer Barker


With only but a strike and then a light.But there must be more!A stroke and then an array of colors,blue, green, oh what a nice sheen.In the land, a c..
Rising of Their Tent

Rising of Their Tent

A Poem by Spencer Barker


The tent, its red ripe of apple,so cold, yet dark as a pipe.A bewilderment at the sight,and let the show begin!One by one, frights, long nights, freak..
The Bookseller's Stories (Or, "The Artist's Chamber")

The Bookseller's Stories (Or, "The Artist's Chambe..

A Story by Spencer Barker


Gregory skipped along making sure to not go too long. But he caught it! There a guy! he thought. A man standing down the street was edged holding the..
The Bookseller's Stories (Or, "The Child's Dream")

The Bookseller's Stories (Or, "The Child's Dream")

A Story by Spencer Barker


At the young age of eight years old, Gregory Mathewson was in utter admiration with books, but stories to be exact. Ah, what an age! What a time to e..
James' Story

James' Story

A Story by Spencer Barker


It goes without saying, but I will say it anyway. You should never let your children roam around in the dark, in a neighborhood in which they do not..