Browsing Category: Short Story

“The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.  Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.  And God is able to provide you with every blessing in […]

                “How do you find a resonant soul?” he asked.                 “Keep sharing,” she replied.  “Keep showing what lights you up.  A soul that makes no waves leaves nothing to be found.  Make your waves.                    Keep giving.  Maybe what you share will never mean a thing to most, but to the ones it […]

      “What is romance?” Ryan asked.       “Lived spirit recognized in resonance with another soul,” she answered.       “Then how does it arise from the inanimate: colors in sky, lines in a book, sound of a song, sense of wind when alone in thought—memories?”       “All lives as spirit in contemplative mind.”       “And how […]

                He woke her in the blackness of pre-dawn, well before the rising sun, and drove to open field where stars shone in violet sky above horizon rimmed in ambient light of small town beneath world’s meridian.  They lain together staring into the Cosmos as stars fell from the heavens all around—blue, green, and orange […]

          Brake lights flared in chained effect, slowing as traffic entered into chaff catching and blowing heavy across the road in strong south wind from drawn into low-pressure front approaching from above.  Chaff carried, thick and billowing, like smoke, across the highway as red-light brakes and the scattering of approaching white lights, showing yellow through […]

                He woke to the sense of storm: thunder and low-roll tremors that struck in wave through chest as front drew near.  He woke her to the same: with storm that stirred, sent body into tremble; waves of sense that flashed her skies and left behind an after-peace—her still in his embrace—as soft rains fell […]

“A new world…Free at last!  No thanks to God, free at last!”—Aristarchus Jones (Walker Percy), Lost in the Cosmos                 Day of darkness neared and from cave’s opening Simon studied transept line showing vertical upon the face of the Great Ember, dividing illumination from darkness.  In illumination, Simon witnessed storms on the Great Ember billowing […]

          “They were people who had no special interest in religion or God, in expanding their minds or reaching a new level of consciousness, until one day they simply decided to change everything.  The most interesting thing about the book was that it told of how, in each of those lives, there was a single […]