Browsing Category: Short Story

      “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 […]

          “I binge read a book the other week,” he shared.           She laughed, “You?  I would have never thought that possible.  I thought you just called that reading!”           He smiled back, “This one was excessive, even for my rate.”           “What was it?” she asked.           “Where the Crawdad’s Sing.  I’d heard about […]

          Ryan returned to the passages that cast the story with its romance, to the hidden glade in the woods of which only Aliena then knew; where Jack followed and found and spoke to her alone.  It became the sanctuary where they learned and discovered one another; where Jack read poetry and stories learned from […]

                “How do you change the world?” asked the young man of ambition to the old with experience.                 “Care,” the old man answered.  “Care for Someone, Anyone.  Don’t worry whether it is the Right One, or the Wrong One.  Who it is, is not important, so long as it is Someone.  If you feel […]