Brake lights flared in chained effect, slowing as traffic entered into chaff catching and blowing heavy across the road in strong south wind from drawn into low-pressure front approaching from above. Chaff carried, thick and billowing, like smoke, across the highway as red-light brakes and the scattering of approaching white lights, showing yellow through […]
All Posts By: Byron McCoy
Short Story
NEW-LOVE DAWN
He woke to the sense of storm: thunder and low-roll tremors that struck in wave through chest as front drew near. He woke her to the same: with storm that stirred, sent body into tremble; waves of sense that flashed her skies and left behind an after-peace—her still in his embrace—as soft rains fell […]
Poetry
LETTER TO CORINTHIA
I wrote this yesterday replanting a field that failed when conditions were not right. I was looking on the skies and the quote from 1 Corinthians came into my mind: “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; […]
Short Story
LOST COVE
“A new world…Free at last! No thanks to God, free at last!”—Aristarchus Jones (Walker Percy), Lost in the Cosmos Day of darkness neared and from cave’s opening Simon studied transept line showing vertical upon the face of the Great Ember, dividing illumination from darkness. In illumination, Simon witnessed storms on the Great Ember billowing […]
Short Story
DAYLILIES
“They were people who had no special interest in religion or God, in expanding their minds or reaching a new level of consciousness, until one day they simply decided to change everything. The most interesting thing about the book was that it told of how, in each of those lives, there was a single […]