He drank himself blind wallowing in relived histories of sin. His mind and senses replayed the past, seeing and feeling all again: war, murder, the soft pull of a trigger and the heart-skip, soul-thump of dropped ordinance in close range; each murder-song of heavy and medium machine guns firing, the light crack near and […]
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Faith / Short Story
JOB
Emmanual walked with his angel in place of solitude protected by folds and rollings of the earth, away from any man’s sight, and where only Heaven above could see. The pastures were low grazed save the tops of Indiangrass and bluestem bunches whose course late-season stems were avoided by the ranging cattle leaving their […]
Short Story
TRANSITION
“There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for everything under the heavens. A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. […]
Faith / Short Story
JOHN 12
“Amen, amen I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, keepeth it unto life eternal. If any man minister […]
Short Story
FEATHERS
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” “Oh,” she said. “Oh.” “You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can’t read.” “It ain’t just that.” She spoke almost in a whisper. “I wadn’t aware that words could hold so much. […]
Short Story
WHEN LOVE DIED
It was the autumn love died; when late summer drought browned the pastures premature and early frost killed the leaves of the woods that fell without color or splendor in transition. Bleak winter followed: colorless and dry until late snows fell and stayed heavy on the earth. Beneath, the world was changing. […]
Journal Pages / Short Story
MORNING GUEST
He sat again with his angel again, resting at kitchen table with steam of coffee rising as sign and incense between vision of the two. “I’ve been reading Deuteronomy,” he shared. “I don’t think I’ve ever read it before, but the review and words of Moses at his end; his reiteration to honor […]
Journal Pages / Short Story
WITH MORNING SUN
He sat with the morning sun, with the cricket songs of late summer season that played day and night within surrounding fields. He sat with the vines, wet in after-rain, as droplets traced, beaded and fell downward from low tendrils and once-trumpet lily blooms brought to fruit by bees and beaks of hummingbirds drawn […]
Short Story
MAGIC
“Life needs a little Magic, don’t you think? Maybe It isn’t real, all imagined; or maybe there’s something to It. Maybe we manifest It, or maybe we sense and allow It to show and live through us. Whatever It is, even if It’s nothing, I’d rather live in belief in Its possibility than a […]
Short Story
OASIS IN THE SKY
They climbed a switchback trail ascending through stands of aspen and lodgepole pines until line where trees stunted then gave way to snow and lichen spread over rock scree and solid granite slopes. They set camp beside an alpine lake within a cradle of surrounding peaks that shone grey in day and changed […]