“How do you find a resonant soul?” he asked. “Keep sharing,” she replied. “Keep showing what lights you up. A soul that makes no waves leaves nothing to be found. Make your waves. Keep giving. Maybe what you share will never mean a thing to most, but to the ones it […]
All Posts By: Byron McCoy
Journal Pages / Short Story
REPEAT THE PAST
“You can’t repeat the past.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald You staged hours before in the hangar bay of the ship by company, platoons, squads, and fire teams. You inspected, reinspected, and waited. You had an old iPod, back when they were just music, and you listened to zone out and to put your mind in a […]
Short Story
ROMANCE
“What is romance?” Ryan asked. “Lived spirit recognized in resonance with another soul,” she answered. “Then how does it arise from the inanimate: colors in sky, lines in a book, sound of a song, sense of wind when alone in thought—memories?” “All lives as spirit in contemplative mind.” “And how […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
FIRST STEP
FIRST STEP:“…I yearned to know how could our image fitInto that circle, how could it conform; but my own wings could not take me so high—then a great flash of understanding struckmy mind, and suddenly it’s wish was granted. At this point power failed high fantasybut, like a wheel in perfect balance turning,I felt my […]