Browsing Category: Short Story

               “A shift in Universe, what do you mean?” she asked.  “What are you speaking of?”                He smiled, “Maybe, in speaking open and true before God—or Universe—if that’s what we want to call It; being open and vulnerable before sensing and sentient force; It understands.  It recognizes and discerns sincerity, goodness of heart indifferent […]

               “Have you found a new book?” he asked.                She smiled to the question, humored in attention and care for a interest dismissed by most of the world.  She took a draw from her morning coffee, warmth in trace moving across lips, tongue, then down.  She waited for reside of the feel before responding […]

“He no longer beheld the night…It seemed to him that he felt those wings that we all have within us, unfolding…”                 Temperature fell, then storm arrived: slanting snows and billows of wind that broke in burst against wall and windows, scratch of snow soft in after-settling.  Inside, they held to the warmth of one […]

                “…sometimes—rarely, but magnificently—there comes a day when you’re open and relaxed enough to…receive…Your defenses might slacken and your anxieties might ease, and then magic can slip through.  The idea, sensing your openness, will start to do its work on you.  It will send the universal physical and emotional signals of inspiration (the chills up […]

                They walked together nineteenth century streets of an old harbor town; brick sidewalks and lane rising from water in narrow alleys up sloping seaside hills, clapboard sided townhomes painted in muti-color arrays as the sound of traffic carried over lanes made for horse and cart and now rattled with loose and shifted bricks under […]

                Her sky was inverse to night’s—white expanse broken with freckled stars becoming constellations that, even as surface, painted endless depths in discernment of her details.                 As dawn from rising sun, her sky blushed in rosed and living hue to warmth and touch-effect of storytelling tongue that spoke across her stars breathing life to […]

                They fell to sleep in warmed embrace as snow fell in cooling silence, stilling world of haste.                 They woke in morning to snow’s blanket cover and glow-hint promise of new-day light on horizon’s crest.  In sun’s arriving rise, light shone silver into rooms through translucent iced and frost-glazed glass that would soon melt […]

                Annie sat by open window reading as wind of autumn air filled and changed spirit in room.  Cool breath of the wind struck over face, fluttering curtains, hair and book page edges as her body warmed beneath sweater and patterned poncho frock.                 Between turnings of book’s pages, she observed sky’s change across the […]