Browsing Category: Short Story

    They created life of shared fruitfulness, taking joy in small toils that came in working earth; of suntanned skin and dirt-stained hands adorned in seeing bounties rise; tending with hands their small lotted place; ending days with the sun, in calming tiredness that is reward for expended effort and time well used.  After sun departed, […]

                “Our…relationship(s are) the inner sanctum of our emotional lives.  (They are) our first source of emotional support and our primary opportunity to develop and experience a deep level of intimacy.  For most of us, our…relationship(s) will be the one chance we have in this lifetime to truly know a person, and in turn, to […]

                “The same truth is evident among all people, at all times, and in all situations: the happiest people are those who cherish the mystery of relationships.”—Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy                 “What do you think of boundaries?”                 “I don’t,” she answered with smile.  “If meant to reach, they will be found.  […]

                “What is Magic to you,” he asked as they walked together in autumn eve through glade of fallen spirits.  “Where does Universe sign?  How does God speak, to you?”                 A wind caught and its touch through trees stripped and scattered further cast of colored leaves weakened in autumn’s hold scattering in wind and […]

                “How do I be a better friend?” he asked in vulnerability and admission of faults and limitation to discernment.  “How do I learn to offer what another wishes instead of proceeding in irreverence?”                 His friend listened, processing question before providing answer.                 “Listen,” the friend replied.  “Think on what another says and shares […]

                For two days, ran fell beneath grey that cast as blanket, complete, across the sky.  Cracks of the dry, split earth smoothed, and the shadow of the clouds and fall of the rain restored depth of hopeful hues to landscape of barren brown and paling green.                 By strain, the land was strengthened in […]

                Hard frost arrived.  Winterkill occurred and, by silent shattering of cells, death came to another life season.                  In the new gold light of rising sun that burned silver killing frost back to harmless dew, Annie stared on the vestige of her, day before, verdant garden.  Tomatoes, heirlooms of forgotten lineage, who night before […]

                They sat outside at table under sky of changing mood.  Gone were the still winds and clear sky of before as front approached, grey and lavender depths of layered watercolor sky with wisps and tails of rain arced in curl by winds in undertow beneath.  Fallen leaves, dried and curled, scattered in scratch across […]

                Ryan and Emma lain together on flatbed of truck, the cool of autumn’s arrival drawing and keeping one another near in arms and hold of the other.  They stared on the clear night sky as softening songs of crickets sang the last of their cantos before frost’s season of silence.                  They stared on […]