“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 […]
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Short Story
AFTER-DROUGHT
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 […]
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WINTERKILL
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 […]
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SOFT INCESSANCE
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 […]
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EVANESCENCE
“And I saw, when he had opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake, And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair: and the whole moon became as blood: and the stars from heaven fell upon the earth, as the fig tree casteth its green figs when it is shaken […]
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STARLINK
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 […]
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MARKED PAGE
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]