Browsing Category: Short Story

MELTING SIGN

               He found her in rest by window view, body curled in chair, hands’ comb through her hair as she gazed on a sky turned night.                Beside her on small table beside her chair and place, candle burned in an alabaster mind through which flame glowed in amber through.  Candle lit her face, warm […]

SOME WAY

               In quiet and alone and take of cigar, its acrid taste of remain in each draw’s after, he wrote to her.  In commune and exchange entirely of mind he believed that she would see.                He was crazy in that way, believing in the power of intentions and energies and that signs and spirit […]

LEARN

               He sat on porch smoking cigar, mark of ending to a week.  Sun was set, already gone, and low clouds glowed orange with fuchsia shadows.  Sky above shone teal and still in climb, blue of day remained.                Northern sky was softer than west’s.  North tempered in begin of evening blush: sky blue-pink and […]

LIGHTENED HEARTS

               In naked and free, open space of the room, she smiled in look to him; the sight of him there, unhidden in full, meet-return of his amorous eyes.                She fluttered to the sight, sudden of a feel, as she rolled to pose that widened and brightened his eyes, raising to greater glow.                […]

MEDIUM

               In night, apart, they united in way of spirit and mind by means and medium of the mystics.                Union of energy sensed through the space, align and same in sensed exchange as if single one-soul thought, they knew each other in the signs.                Words and stories, when and how in appear, resonance […]

MIDDLE WINTER

               In a middle winter of middle life, they found romance that brought their bloom.  In a world of white, cold, and still, they opened into alive.                Like first-time lovers, young and new, they loved in a blindness of bliss and easy ecstasies.                Mornings and days, eves and nights—whenever alone in the Spirit—they […]

GLOWED

               He kissed her again in high day’s sun on table’s edge in center and recess of room, sight of outdoors and world beyond windows, but by the depth in the room and shade of the glass, hidden from returned view.                He kissed her in sit, she spread ready and fast, eager-wanting for his […]

BRIGHTER

               A warmth returned, and they walked in the world under clear of sun and sky in light.  Beside the trail, in shade of the trees, ice and snow remained; but on the path and lawned open of park, earth was open again.                 She wore a stocking cap drawn low, it and hair in […]