Browsing Category: Short Story

“…free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.”—Saint Augustine, Confessions _____                “And what have you learned?” Annie was asked.                    Annie listened, staring out from veranda upon street of colors, culture, and charm—all new, enchanting, to her.  She had wanted to go, to see and learn, and so they went […]

          “There are more I want to write,” he told.           “Then write,” she answered.  Sensing hesitation, unwanted silence after but unreadiness to say, she continued in erasure of the pause.  “Don’t ask, and don’t explain.  Just write.  It’s your art, your adventure, your own experience in creation—make it.  Don’t conform and hide to fit […]

               “Jesus’ transfiguration was an experience of his divinity shining through his humanity.  In that brilliance, Peter, James, and John, saw more clearly the fullness of who Jesus was.  It was beyond anything they had seen or experienced before.  This transfiguration took their breath away.  Though they might not have been ready to receive this […]

               In amber of evening light, James witnessed Annie in creation.  Silent in chair, he observed as Annie composed that which appeared to her in silence and thought-openness to inspirations.                 Her hand moved intermittent, and he watched through thought-pauses and after-bursts of pen over open page; observing details and the way she looked and […]

               There were days when the greater stories would not write, and when such was, he wrote the ones that would.                 So it happened—at libraries and bookstores, coffee shops and street sides—as Annie read or rested near to him when she would feel an energy shift: energy of eyes and attention in sudden fix […]

               “There is only so long that a person can keep her enthusiasm locked away within her heart before she longs to share it with a fellow soul, and Alma had many decades of thoughts much overdue for sharing.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things                He had a quietness that listened, and eyes that […]

               In quiet room, Annie read by light of showing sunrise, golden as it broke, and enrichment of aura from lamp of soft-white glow that, near, illuminated self and page before muting into oneness with room and sun as it dispelled into room beyond.                Outside, Annie looked on the shadows of trees silhouetted in […]

          Emma was composed in warmth of an autumn love that took and beget as Life, making entry into world under announcement of Perseids’ star-fall and light of colored trails in sky-celestial rain from Heaven onto earth.           As with Bethlehem in history told, there are some souls born, modest and unannounced, by world that […]

        He rested on the porch reading with the falling sun listening as crickets and cicadas resumed their songs from night before, their sunfall scratch and cadence that seemed eternal, ever-present in night dying light and eves, building strength as summer days waned, a false forever until—one day—it was gone as becomes to […]

               In turn of fall and come of summer’s end, he boarded a flight to the west coast where a bus waited and took him to an asphalt tarmac under San Diego sun where, arrived, he was rushed from seat and raced blind into beginning of a new life-chapter.                Before departing, she handed him […]